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SpiffWorkflow Exceptions
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Details about the exceptions and exception hierarchy within SpiffWorkflow
SpiffWorkflowException
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Base exception for all exceptions raised by SpiffWorkflow
ValidationException
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**Extends**
SpiffWorkflowException
Thrown during the parsing of a workflow.
**Attributes/Methods**
- **tag**: The type of xml tag being parsed
- **id**: the id attribute of the xml tag, if available.
- **name**: the name attribute of the xml tag, if available.
- **line_number**: the line number where the tag occurs.
- **file_name**: The name of the file where the error occurred.
- **message**: a human readable error message.
WorkflowException
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When an error occurs with a Task Specification (maybe should have been called
a SpecException)
**Extends**
SpiffWorkflowException
**Attributes/Methods**
- **sender**: The TaskSpec - the specific Task, Gateway, etc... that caused the error to happen.
- **error**: a human readable error message describing the problem.
- **get_task_trace**: Provided a specific Task, will work it's way through the workflow / sub-processes
and call activities to show where an error occurred. Useful if the error happened within a deeply nested structure (where call activities include call activities ....)
WorkflowDataException
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When an exception occurs moving data between tasks and Data Objects (including
data inputs and data outputs.)
**Extends**
WorkflowException
**Attributes/Methods**
(in addition to the values in a WorkflowException)
- **task**: The specific task (not the task spec, but the actual executing task)
- **data_input**: The spec of the input variable
- **data_output**: The spec of the output variable
WorkflowTaskException
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**Extends**
WorkflowException
**Attributes/Methods**
(in addition to the values in a WorkflowException)
- **task**: The specific task (not the task spec, but the actual executing task)
- **error_msg**: The detailed human readable message. (conflicts with error above)
- **exception**: The original exception this wraps around.
- **line_number** The line number that contains the error
- **offset** The point in the line that caused the error
- **error_line** The content of the line that caused the error.
It will accept the line_number and error_line as arguments - if the
underlying error provided is a SyntaxError it will try to derive this
information from the error.
If this is a name error, it will attempt to calculate a did-you-mean
error_msg.
Unused / Deprecated errors
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** StorageException **
Deprecated -- Used only by the PrettyXmlSerializer - which is not under active
support.
** DeadMethodCalled **
Something related to WeakMethod -- which doesn't look to be utilized anymore.