Throwing one selected representative exception among aggregated multiple exceptions of same root cause received from concurrent tasks and discarding the rest

• US 7,861,072 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2007
• Issued: 12/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Tribble, Eric Dean, Morrison, Vance, Callahan, David, Duffy, John Joseph, Grunkemeyer, Brian, Detlefs, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim; Kenneth S
• Application Number:
  US11/821,649
• Publication Number:
  US 20080320291A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,282 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 712/244
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/481 Exception handling
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4812 by interrupt, e.g. masked
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/52 Program synchronisation; Mutual exclusion, e.g. by means of semaphores

Abstract

Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing concurrent exception handling. When one or more exceptions are received from concurrent workers, one or more exception handler functions are supplied. For each respective exception in the exception results, determine if the respective exception is one of a kind of exceptions handled by the one or more exception handler functions. If the respective exception is one of a kind handled by the exception handler functions, then run a particular handler of the exception handler functions and mark the respective exception as handled. Any unhandled exceptions are then processed appropriately. In one implementation, a collection of input data is processed to produce a collection of output results, with the exceptions being interleaved with other output results. In another implementation, a particular exception is selected that represents the multiple exceptions. The selected one particular exception is then thrown.

Claims

1. A method for selecting an exception to raise out of many exceptions comprising the steps of:

receiving multiple exceptions that occurred on concurrent worker tasks;

aggregating the multiple exceptions;

selecting one particular exception of the aggregated multiple exceptions that represents the multiple exceptions because the multiple exceptions have a same root cause;

throwing the selected one particular exception; and

discarding the multiple exceptions other than the selected one particular exception.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one particular exception is one that is determined to be a most important exception.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one particular exception is an exception that was not one of the multiple exceptions.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the one particular exception is selected by a policy determined programmatically.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the aggregate multiple exceptions are stored in an aggregate exception object.

6. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for causing a computer to perform the steps recited in claim 1.

7. A system for selecting an exception to raise out of many exceptions comprising the steps of:

first logic configured to receive multiple exceptions occurring on concurrent worker tasks and to produce an aggregation of the multiple exceptions;

second logic configured to select one particular exception from the multiple exceptions, the one particular exception being selected as representing the multiple exceptions because the second logic analyzed the multiple exceptions and determined the multiple exceptions to have a same root cause; and

a computing device that operates the first logic and the second logic;

wherein the selected one particular exception is thrown and the multiple exceptions other than the selected one particular exception are discarded.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the one particular exception is one that is determined to be a most important exception.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the one particular exception is an exception that was not one of the multiple exceptions.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the one particular exception is selected by a policy determined programmatically.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the aggregate multiple exceptions are stored in an aggregate exception object.

12. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for causing a computer to perform steps comprising:

receiving multiple exceptions that occurred on concurrent worker tasks;

aggregating the multiple exceptions;

selecting one particular exception of the aggregated multiple exceptions that represents the multiple exceptions because the multiple exceptions have a same root cause;

throwing the selected one particular exception; and

discarding the multiple exceptions other than the selected one particular exception.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the one particular exception is one that is determined to be a most important exception.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the one particular exception is an exception that was not one of the multiple exceptions.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the one particular exception is selected by a policy determined programmatically.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the aggregate multiple exceptions are stored in an aggregate exception object.