[Seaside] input of uncompilable code error hags the session

[stephane ducasse]

ideally if the compiler would be nicely done you could trap  
exception. In practice this is ugly and you have to patch it.
I had to do that for my bot env.
With the new compiler life will be easier but we have to work on it  
first.

Stef

On 15 oct. 05, at 04:05, Sebastián Sastre wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>     I working on a system that has an input of thext that makes a  
> query with smalltalk sintax.
>
>     In this case, the query is made evaluating a #select: block in  
> the target collection. Somthing like this:
>
>     [:e| e interested and:[ e surname notNil]]
>
>     In the seaside component who manages that text entered by the  
> user in a textArea field, there is a point in wich that text cames  
> to the method as aQuery, so it makes something like this:
>
>         ...
>         filter := Compiler evaluate: aQuery codeString.
>         results := collection select: filter.
>         self call: (WAInformXXXX new contacts: results).
>
>     The problem I had with this is that the seaside session is  
> bloqued when the user enters text that is not compilable. A missing  
> braket is the typical error. That means the entire session to get  
> lost because the squeak interface pops up a window and seaside gets  
> eternally waiting for somethig.
>
>     How can I detect an uncompilable smalltalk code so I can avoid  
> this inconvenience?
>
>     thank you,
>
> Sebastián Sastre
>
> ssastre at seaswork.com.ar
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