Questions tagged [illegal-input]

In Java if an input argument to a method is invalid, we can throw an IllegalArgumentException (which is of type RuntimeException). In C++, there is no notion of checked and unchecked exceptions. Is there a similar exception in standard C++ which can…

If a method checks it's input and detects illegal input, what should it do: Raise an exception (or use another error-mechanism) or do nothing/ignoring on the wrong input? In Java the HashTable-class throws an NullPointerException if given…

I am trying to parse JSON in kotlin where I have a suspend function returning a list but it is giving an error io.ktor.serialization.JsonConvertException: Illegal input. The function is as follows private suspend fun fetchMenu(): List { …