One Exception handler for all exceptions of a CLASS

Question

I have a class with number of methods and want to have one exception handler for them all. There are so many of these methods and they have different parameters, that it would b

Answer 1

I don't think there is. You could move the try/catch to the caller, but that's not very good design. It may be better to separate it out into another class, and use Reflection to call the methods, like this:

public class MyClass {}
public class MySafeClass {
    public void CallMethod(string name, object[] param) {
        Type t = typeof(MyClass);
        MyClass mc = new MyClass();
        try {
            t.GetMethod(name).Invoke(mc, param);
        }
        catch {
            //...;
        }
    }

}

But you shouldn't! It's not very good practice.

Another method is still using try/catch but having a single method to throw exceptions, etc back to the user:

public class MyClass {
    void DoException(string message) {
        throw new Exception(message);
    }
}

But that still isn't that good an option.

I don't see why it would be ugly - even if you just wrap the whole method in one try/catch with a message. That might be feasible.

It's also a better option to just leave them and pass them back up to the caller, perhaps in try/finally.

It's not exactly hard to try/catch everything, especially with the snippets in Visual Studio and SharpDevelop.