What's the best way of capturing any DBI errors in Perl? For example if an insert fails because there were illegal characters in the values being inserted, how can I not have the script fail, but capture the error and handle it appropriately.
I don't want to do the "or die" because I don't want to stop execution of the script.
Use the RaiseError=>1
configuration in DBI->connect
, and wrap your calls to the $dbh
and $sth
in a try block (TryCatch and Try::Tiny are good implementations for try blocks).
See the docs for more information on other connect variables available.
for example:
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;
use Try::Tiny;
my $dbh = DBI->connect(
$your_dsn_here,
$user,
$password,
{
PrintError => 0,
PrintWarn => 1,
RaiseError => 1,
AutoCommit => 1,
}
);
try
{
# deliberate typo in query here
my $data = $dbh->selectall_arrayref('SOHW TABLES', {});
}
catch
{
warn "got dbi error: $_";
};
you can also do the following, which will allow you to die, or gracefully handle the errors and continue.
$dbh = DBI->connect($data_src, $user, $pwd) or die $DBI::errstr;
my $sth = $dbh->prepare("DELETE FROM table WHERE foo = '?'");
$sth->execute('bar');
if ( $sth->err )
{
die "DBI ERROR! : $sth->err : $sth->errstr \n";
}