Hi, I’m pretty new to Haxe and I spent the last weeks porting a rather big as3 game, learning quite a lot on the way
Now the game is starting to run, to the point where something breaks and I fix it : rinse, repeat
My problem is that caught exceptions are stopping code execution : Haxedevelop requires me to hit the green “play” button on every single caught exception ^^
For example when using Reflect.setProperty : Reflect first tries to access a setter, (inside a try/catch block) and when there is no setter I get a “[Fault] exception, information=ReferenceError: Error #1069” in HaxeDevelop’s output and I have to click to resume code execution.
Is this expected behavior ? I never used try/catch much with as3 and the few times I did the try part was not supposed to fail
More importantly : is there a way to ignore it ? And only have uncaught errors to interrupt code execution ?
I use Reflection quite a lot, mostly to load external data into objects, and I’m rebuilding the UI using stablexui which also uses Reflection… that is quickly adding to an insane number of unneeded interruptions
I’m not doing any try/catch myself : I have some in the code because as3hx conversion turned out that way but I’m removing them progressively.
The try/catch that were bothering me were not in my code though : they came from stablexui using Reflect, and Reflect.setProperty doing a try/catch. It tries first to call a setter for the property, at least when exporting to flash target (my final target is c++, flash is for testing and debugging).
So for every Reflect.setProperty call on a property that doesn’t have a setter you get a caught error on flash target.
On Reflect.hasField : my current understanding is that it won’t “see” getters/setters, am I right ?
Also I’m still very new to this and there’s some kind of warning on Reflect.hasField that says it’s not guaranteed to work on non-anonymous structures (which I understand as “Dynamic” for now)
I’m not using Reflect everywhere, in case you’re wondering I created a custom system for our game that handles animations, sounds and all kind of visual effects. And a WYSIWYG editor for it. The code that loads that data in game is the part that uses Reflect most
So when that part of the game started working again I got litteraly overwhelmed with caught errors interruptions I didn’t think about looking at the debug menu until the next morning, and instead started searching the net, looking at my projetc file etc and finally post here ^^
You can check for "get_" + propertyName for getters, and "set_" + propertyName and it should generally work. There’s also a way to check properties of the class type for the object, but some of this may be more expensive than try/catch