Sunday, August 25, 2013

Variation on AsyncResult for Android AsyncTaskLoader

I found this example of an AsyncResult for an Android AsyncTaskLoader
http://blog.gunawan.me/2011/10/android-asynctaskloader-exception.html

However, it suggests a pattern of handling exception types with if/else statements in the "if (exception != null)", likely with instanceof.

That responsibility really belongs to the user, and the user can do this instead:


try {
   if (result.getException ()) throw result.getException ();
   // non-exception results
} catch ...


However, this also leaves the responsibility of the user to catch and not ignore the exception. So here's a better alternative that forces the user to catch the (parameterized!) exception to get the value:


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