VBA + Excel + Try Catch
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
on error goto Oops
version = "1.0"
Set objHTTP = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
URL = "<WEB SERVICE>"
objHTTP.Open "POST", URL, False
objHTTP.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"
objHTTP.setRequestHeader "Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
objHTTP.send ("version=" + version)
exit sub
Oops:
'handle error here
End Sub
If you wanted to, for example, change the URL because of the error, you can do this
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
on error goto Oops
version = "1.0"
Set objHTTP = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
URL = "<WEB SERVICE>"
Send:
objHTTP.Open "POST", URL, False
objHTTP.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"
objHTTP.setRequestHeader "Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
objHTTP.send ("version=" + version)
exit sub
Oops:
'handle error here
URL="new URL"
resume Send 'risk of endless loop if the new URL is also bad
End Sub
Also, if your feeling really try/catchy, you can emulate that like this.
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
version = "1.0"
Set objHTTP = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
URL = "<WEB SERVICE>"
on error resume next 'be very careful with this, it ignores all errors
objHTTP.Open "POST", URL, False
objHTTP.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"
objHTTP.setRequestHeader "Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
objHTTP.send ("version=" + version)
if err <> 0 then
'not 0 means it errored, handle it here
err.clear 'keep in mind this doesn't reset the error handler, any code after this will still ignore errors
end if
End Sub
So extending this to be really hard core...
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
version = "1.0"
on error resume next
Set objHTTP = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
if err <> 0 then
'unable to create object, give up
err.clear
exit sub
end if
URL = "<WEB SERVICE>"
objHTTP.Open "POST", URL, False
if err <> 0 then
'unable to open request, give up
err.clear
exit sub
end if
objHTTP.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"
objHTTP.setRequestHeader "Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
objHTTP.send ("version=" + version)
if err <> 0 then
'unable to send request, give up
err.clear
exit sub
end if
End Sub
Also worth noting that any errors that happen in an on error goto
style will not be handled, so if you did this
private sub MakeError()
dim iTemp as integer
on error goto Oops
iTemp = 5 / 0 'divide by 0 error
exit sub
Oops:
itemp = 4 / 0 'unhandled exception, divide by 0 error
end sub
Will cause an unhandled exception, however
private sub MakeError()
dim iTemp as integer
on error resume next
iTemp = 5 / 0 'divide by 0 error
if err <> 0 then
err.clear
iTemp = 4 / 0 'divide by 0 error, but still ignored
if err <> 0 then
'another error
end if
end if
end sub
Will not cause any exceptions, since VBA ignored them all.
Something like this:
Try
...
Catch (Exception e)
...
End Try
Might look like this in VBA:
' The "Try" part
On Error Resume Next
...
On Error GoTo 0
' The "Catch" part
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
...
End If
However, this form may not be following best practices.