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Workspace Rapid Network Automation
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 2, 2024

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Improve try catch to reduce number of required blocks.

Currenty when using try/catch blocks, you almost always need 4 blocks. "Try"... "block to execute" ... "catch" ... "if block to check exception".

I think the improvement might be to merge the catch/if by making the catch block have fields to simulate the if block. The catch should have a condition to match the node that threw exception and the message thrown. Also having multiple catches and all get evaluated, like a case statement.

This is my "if block" in the catch:

$catchSearchError_1.message === "Error: No Such Object" && $catchSearchError_1.stack[0].node === "getBluepagesByDN"

Idea priority Low
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    Shane Hadden
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    |     Sep 16, 2024

    Part of the design of Pliant has been akin to the UNIX philosophy of "Make each program do one thing well" but with blocks instead of programs. We've tried to keep a simple set of blocks that can be combined in powerful ways.
    In this case, I would recommend using a Switch/Case inside the Catch block, but set the value of "expression" to be the boolean value true. Then each case can have whatever kind of boolean JS expression is appropriate.

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