Chapter 5
Handling Errors
WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?
- Sources of networking errors in iOS applications
- Detecting reachability of the network
- Rules of thumb for handling errors
- A design pattern for handling network errors
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Thus far, you have learned about networking iPhones with other systems under the implied assumption that things just work. In this chapter you discard that assumption and dive into the real world of networking. In this real world, things go wrong, sometimes extremely wrong: Phones move on and off networks; packets get lost or delayed; network infrastructure fails; and there is the occasional user error. Writing a networked iOS app would be much easier if things just worked, but unfortunately that isn’t the case. This chapter reviews some of the things that can cause networked operations to fail. It discusses how the system informs the app of the failure, and how the app should gracefully inform the user. A software pattern that is helpful in handling errors in a clean and consistent manner without requiring error handling code in the application logic is also described.
UNDERSTANDING ERROR SOURCES ...
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