CodeSOD: Never Bother the Customer
by Remy Porter from The Daily WTF on (#31EF1)
Matthew H was given a pretty basic task: save some data as a blob. This task was made more complicated by their boss's core philosophy, though.
Never. Bother. The. Customer..
"Right, but if the operation fails and we can't continue?"
Never. Bother. The. Customer.
"Okay, sure, but what if they gave us bad input?"
Never. Bother. The. Customer.
"Okay, sure, but what if, by hitting okay, we're going to format their entire hard drive?"
Never. Bother. The. Customer.
As such, for every method that Matthew wrote, he was compelled to write a "safe" version, like this:
protected void SaveToBlobStorageSafe(){ try { SaveToBlobStorage(); } catch (Exception ex) { }}No errors, no matter what the cause, were ever to be allowed to be seen by the user.
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