Catch Multiple Custom Exceptions? - C++

Question

I\'m a student in my first C++ programming class, and I\'m working on a project where we have to create multiple custom exception classes, and then in one of our event handl

Answer 1

When templates can't, macros save the day. The solution is taken from Boost. It boils to 7 lines of code.

/// @file multicatch.hpp
#include <boost/preprocessor/variadic/to_list.hpp>
#include <boost/preprocessor/list/for_each.hpp>

/// Callers must define CATCH_BODY(err) to handle the error,
/// they can redefine the CATCH itself, but it is not as convenient. 
#define CATCH(R, _, T) \
  catch (T & err) {    \
    CATCH_BODY(err)    \
  }
/// Generates catches for multiple exception types
/// with the same error handling body.
#define MULTICATCH(...) \
  BOOST_PP_LIST_FOR_EACH(CATCH, _, BOOST_PP_VARIADIC_TO_LIST(__VA_ARGS__))
// end of file multicatch.hpp

/// @file app.cc
#include "multicatch.hpp"

// Contrived example.
/// Supply the error handling logic.
#define CATCH_BODY(err)                        \
  log() << "External failure: " << err.what(); \
  throw;

void foo() {
  try {
    bar();  // May throw three or more sibling or unrelated exceptions.
  }
  MULTICATCH(IOError, OutOfMemory)
}

#undef CATCH_BODY