From 39db2eaf49aee569e9d216d312abba7388e8529d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Dong <jdong@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:16:34 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Improve consistency of XMLRPC error reporting. Now, all
 error conditions will raise an exception. Before, there was an inconsistent
 mix between raising exceptions and returning nil objects. Nil objects are
 much less desirable because the client must explicitly check for errors and
 some errors might silently pass through and produce incorrect results

---
 app/apis/selectricity_api.rb       |  2 --
 app/models/selectricity_service.rb | 16 ++++++----------
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app/apis/selectricity_api.rb b/app/apis/selectricity_api.rb
index dfc9946..9c95369 100644
--- a/app/apis/selectricity_api.rb
+++ b/app/apis/selectricity_api.rb
@@ -19,12 +19,10 @@ class VoteResultStruct < ActionWebService::Struct
   member :condorcet_winners, [:int]
   member :ssd_winners, [:int]
   member :borda_winners, [:int]
-  member :errors, [:string]
 end
 class CandidateMap < ActionWebService::Struct
   member :candidate_ids, [:int]
   member :candidate_names, [:string]
-  member :errors, [:string]
 end
 class SelectricityAPI < ActionWebService::API::Base
   api_method :cast_quickvote, :expects => [:string, :int, [[:int]]], :returns => [:string]
diff --git a/app/models/selectricity_service.rb b/app/models/selectricity_service.rb
index add8154..196161a 100644
--- a/app/models/selectricity_service.rb
+++ b/app/models/selectricity_service.rb
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ class SelectricityService < ActionWebService::Base
   def quickvote_candidate_ids_to_names(shortname, id_list)
     qv=QuickVote.ident_to_quickvote(shortname)
     candidates={}
-    return [] unless qv
+    raise ArgumentError.new("Quickvote by name #{shortname} doesn't exist") unless qv
     qv.results
     qv.candidates.each {|c| candidates[c.id] = c}
     results=[]
@@ -46,10 +46,8 @@ class SelectricityService < ActionWebService::Base
     #TODO: Validate shortname
     qv=QuickVote.ident_to_quickvote(shortname)
     result=VoteResultStruct.new
-    result.errors=[]
     unless qv
-      result.errors << "No quickvote with name #{shortname} found!"
-      return result
+      raise ArgumentError.new("No quickvote with name #{shortname} found!")
     end
     qv.results
     result.plurality_winners=qv.plurality_result.winners
@@ -62,10 +60,8 @@ class SelectricityService < ActionWebService::Base
   def get_quickvote_candidate_map(shortname)
     qv=QuickVote.ident_to_quickvote(shortname)
     result=CandidateMap.new
-    result.errors=[]
     unless qv
-      result.errors << "No quickvote with name #{shortname} found!"
-      return result
+      raise ArgumentError.new("No quickvote with name #{shortname} found!")
     end
     candidates={}
     qv.candidates.each {|c| candidates[c.id] = c.name}
@@ -77,7 +73,7 @@ class SelectricityService < ActionWebService::Base
     qv=QuickVote.ident_to_quickvote(shortname)
     votes=Array.new
     unless qv
-      return result
+      raise ArgumentError.new("Cannot find QuickVote #{shortname}")
     end
     qv.votes.each  do |vote|
       votes << VoteInfo.new(:voter_id => vote.voter.id, :voter_ipaddress => vote.voter.ipaddress, :vote_time => vote.time.to_i, :vote => vote.votes, :voter_session_id => vote.voter.session_id )
@@ -92,7 +88,7 @@ class SelectricityService < ActionWebService::Base
     return all
   end
   def get_quickvote(shortname)
-    return ElectionStruct.new unless election=QuickVote.ident_to_quickvote(shortname)
+    raise ArgumentError.new("Cannot find QuickVote named #{shortname}") unless election=QuickVote.ident_to_quickvote(shortname)
     return ElectionStruct.new(:id => election.id, :name => election.name, :description => election.description, :candidate_ids => election.candidates.collect {|c| c.id }, :candidate_names => election.candidates.collect {|c| c.name } )
   end
   def create_quickvote(election)
@@ -101,7 +97,7 @@ class SelectricityService < ActionWebService::Base
     if qv.save
       return ""
     else
-      return "Saving quickvote FAILED:"+qv.errors.inspect
+      raise ArgumentError.new("Saving quickvote FAILED:"+qv.errors.inspect)
     end
   end
 
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