in reply to Exception handling for Image::Magick

I think that you can take advantage of the fact that the error messages all look like "Error 300: Couldn't foo the bar." The code below should work unless the string returned by GetAttribute happens to be formatted to look like an error message.
use Exception::Class ( 'Image::Magick::Exception' => { fields => [ 'type', 'errno', 'msg' ] + } ); ... my $result = &{"hidden::$cmethod"}; if( "$result" =~ /^(\w+)\s(\d\d\d):\s(.*)/ ) { Image::Magick::Exception->throw( error => "$result", type => $1, errno => $2, msg => $3 ); }; return $result

More generally, it looks like the really proper fix to this would involve twiddling the glue code in Magick.xs. I took a look at the code and I think a global flag could be added that changed the behavior of MagickErrorHandler and MagickWarningHandler, equivalent to DBI's RaiseError flag, but I don't have enough XS experience to know the right way to implement this.

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Re^2: Exception handling for Image::Magick
by redlemon (Hermit) on Sep 06, 2004 at 07:18 UTC

    Brilliantly simple!! If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck.

    Cheers,

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    Lyon