Thrift Binary protocol improvements and application exceptions

Summary: Add application exceptions for unknown methods etc, and also let binary protocol support size limits on containers and strings

Reviewed By: aditya, xp-wayne


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/thrift/trunk@665003 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
diff --git a/lib/cpp/src/protocol/TProtocolException.h b/lib/cpp/src/protocol/TProtocolException.h
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+#ifndef _THRIFT_PROTOCOL_TPROTOCOLEXCEPTION_H_
+#define _THRIFT_PROTOCOL_TPROTOCOLEXCEPTION_H_ 1
+
+#include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>
+#include <string>
+
+namespace facebook { namespace thrift { namespace protocol { 
+
+/**
+ * Class to encapsulate all the possible types of protocol errors that may
+ * occur in various protocol systems. This provides a sort of generic
+ * wrapper around the shitty UNIX E_ error codes that lets a common code
+ * base of error handling to be used for various types of protocols, i.e.
+ * pipes etc.
+ *
+ * @author Mark Slee <mcslee@facebook.com>
+ */
+class TProtocolException : public facebook::thrift::TException {
+ public:
+
+  /**
+   * Error codes for the various types of exceptions.
+   */
+  enum TProtocolExceptionType {
+    UNKNOWN = 0,
+    INVALID_DATA = 1,
+    NEGATIVE_SIZE = 2,
+    SIZE_LIMIT = 3
+  };
+
+  TProtocolException() :
+    facebook::thrift::TException(),
+    type_(UNKNOWN) {}
+
+  TProtocolException(TProtocolExceptionType type) :
+    facebook::thrift::TException(), 
+    type_(type) {}
+
+  TProtocolException(const std::string message) :
+    facebook::thrift::TException(message),
+    type_(UNKNOWN) {}
+
+  TProtocolException(TProtocolExceptionType type, const std::string message) :
+    facebook::thrift::TException(message),
+    type_(type) {}
+
+  virtual ~TProtocolException() throw() {}
+
+  /**
+   * Returns an error code that provides information about the type of error
+   * that has occurred.
+   *
+   * @return Error code
+   */
+  TProtocolExceptionType getType() {
+    return type_;
+  }
+
+  virtual const char* what() const throw() {
+    if (message_.empty()) {
+      return (std::string("Default Protocol Exception: ") +
+        boost::lexical_cast<std::string>(type_)).c_str();
+    } else {
+      return message_.c_str();
+    }
+  }
+
+ protected:
+  /** 
+   * Error code
+   */
+  TProtocolExceptionType type_;
+ 
+};
+
+}}} // facebook::thrift::protocol
+
+#endif // #ifndef _THRIFT_PROTOCOL_TPROTOCOLEXCEPTION_H_