Re: filter exception handling

Maybe we can create a hierarchy of voting for what to do in the case
of a failure in one of the filters. In general, if one filter fails it
seems reasonable for the next ones to continue. Right now we don't
have any filters that require any other filters in order to process.
We do have some that are order specific though, and this is something
I see as more of an issue.

It could be good to include the list of filters that will be applied
to the message as context for each filter. In addition we could keep
the state of that filter processing on the message (not run, running,
failed-with exception). This would even let a filter apply another
filter before it ran if it has dependencies.

Just a thought.

On 12/19/06, Jon Scott Stevens <jon@latchkey.com> wrote:
> I'm starting to think that our handling of exceptions in filters
> should be done better/differently so that if one does fail, the
> filter should just be ignored and the message sent through the rest
> of the filters without having applied that one. comments?
>
> jon
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