InvalidSortSpecification class

An InvalidSortSpecification exception indicates that the first argument provided to either the Sort or SortNew method (in the Stringlist class) is not a valid sort specification.

This exception class has no properties. The class's only method is the New constructor, which you would typically use with a User Language Throw statement to produce an InvalidSortSpecification exception. For example:

throw %(invalidSortSpecification):new

Remember that catching an exception is done with the Catch statement; if an exception condition occurs outside a Catch for it, the request is cancelled.

In most cases, a sort specification is part of User Language code, and so should always be correct and request cancellation is an appropriate action. If, however, a sort specification can be entered at least in part by an end user, a Try/Catch block might be appropriate, as shown here:

try %strlist:sort(%sortSpec) catch invalidSortSpecification Print 'Invalid ...' ... end try

The InvalidSortSpecification class is available as of version 7.9.

The InvalidSortSpecification methods

The following are the available InvalidSortSpecification class methods.

Method	Description
New	Create a new InvalidSortSpecification object

The methods in the class are described in the subsections that follow. In addition:

• "Notation conventions for methods" has information about the conventions followed.
• "InvalidSortSpecification methods syntax" is a single page that contains the syntax diagrams of all the methods in the class.

New constructor

Create a new InvalidSortSpecification object (InvalidSortSpecification class)

[Introduced in Sirius Mods 7.9]

This callable constructor generates an instance of an InvalidSortSpecification exception. The New constructor format follows:

Syntax

%invalidSortSpecification = [%(InvalidSortSpecification):]New

Syntax terms

%invalidSortSpecification	An InvalidSortSpecification %variable which will refer to the newly created object.
%(InvalidSortSpecification)	The class name in parentheses denotes a shared method. New can also be invoked via an InvalidSortSpecification object variable, which may be Null.