---
name: "WWW::Mediawiki::Client::Exceptions"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libwww-mediawiki-client-perl"
version: "0.31-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/WWW::Mediawiki::Client::Exceptions"
---

# WWW::Mediawiki::Client::Exceptions(3pm)

exception handling for WWW::Mediawiki::Client

## NAME

WWW::Mediawiki::Client::Exception - exception handling for WWW::Mediawiki::Client

## SYNOPSIS

```
  use WWW::Mediawiki::Client::Exception;
  use Data::Dumper;
  # throw
  eval {
      WWW::Mediawiki::Client::LoginException->throw(
              error      => 'Something bad happened',
              res        => $res,
              cookie_jar => $cookie_jar,
          );
  };
  # catch
  if (UNIVERSAL::isa($@, 'WWW::Mediawiki::Client::LoginException') {
      print STDERR $@->error;
      print Dumper($@->res);
  }
```

## DESCRIPTION

A base class for WWW::Mediawiki::Client exceptions.

## SUBCLASSES

### WWW::Mediawiki::Client::URLConstructionException

Indicates a problem with the URL with which we to the Mediawiki server.

### WWW::Mediawiki::Client::AuthException

Indicates a problem with the provided authentication information

### WWW::Mediawiki::Client::LoginException

Indicates that login failed for an unknown reason

**Fields:**

- res

  For the apache response object returned by the attempt to log in.

- cookie\_jar

  For the cookie jar which was returned by the attempt to log in.

### WWW::Mediawiki::Client::CookieJarException

Something went wrong saving or loading the cookie jar

### WWW::Mediawiki::Client::FileAccessException

Something went wrong saving or loading a file

### WWW::Mediawiki::Client::FileTypeException

The file which we attempted to operate on is not a .wiki file

### WWW::Mediawiki::Client::AbsoluteFileNameException

The file which we attempted to operate on is not a .wiki file

### WWW::Mediawiki::Client::CommitMessageException

There is a problem with the commit message

### WWW::Mediawiki::Client::CommitException

Something went wrong while committing a change

### WWW::Mediawiki::Client::PageDoesNotExistException

There is no such page, either here or on the server

### WWW::Mediawiki::Client::UpdateNeededException

The page on the server has changed since the local file was last updated

### WWW::Mediawiki::Client::ConflictsPresentException

An attempt was made to commit a file containing conflicts

### WWW::Mediawiki::Client::CorruptedConfigFileException

The configuration file cannot be parsed.

### WWW::Mediawiki::Client::ServerPageException

Something went wrong fetching the server page.

**Throws:**

- res

  The apache response object which was returned in the attempt to fetch the page.

### WWW::Mediawiki::Client::ReadOnlyFieldException

Client code tried to set a read-only field.

## SEE ALSO

Exception::Class

## AUTHORS

- Mark Jaroski \<mark@geekhive.net\>

  Author

- Bernhard Kaindl \<bkaindl@ffii.org\>

  Inspired the improvement in error handling and reporting.

## LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2004 Mark Jaroski.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.