CATCH

CATCH
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result := CATCH ( recset, action [, UNORDERED | ORDERED( bool ) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ ( numthreads ) ] ] [, ALGORITHM( name ) ] );

result	The definition name for the resulting recordset.
recset	The recordset expression that, if it fails, causes the action to launch.
action	One of the three valid actions below.
UNORDERED	Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.
ORDERED	Specifies the significance of the output record order.
bool	When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.
STABLE	Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.
UNSTABLE	Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.
PARALLEL	Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.
numthreads	Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using numthreads threads.
ALGORITHM	Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.
name	The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.
Return:	CATCH returns a set of records (which may be empty).

The CATCH function executes the action if the recset expression fails for any reason.

Valid actions are:

SKIP	Specifies ignoring the error and continuing, returning an empty dataset.
ONFAIL(transform)	Specifies returning a single record from the transform function. The TRANSFORM function may use FAILCODE and/or FAILMESSAGE to provide details of the failure and must result in a RECORD structure the same format as the recset.
FAIL	The FAIL action, which specifies the error message to produce. This is meant to provide more useful information to the end user about why the job failed.

Example:

MyRec := RECORD
    STRING50 Value1;
    UNSIGNED Value2;
END;

ds := DATASET([{'C',1},{'C',2},{'C',3},
               {'C',4},{'C',5},{'X',1},{'A',1}],MyRec);

MyRec FailTransform := transform
  self.value1 := FAILMESSAGE[1..17]; 
  self.value2 := FAILCODE
END;

limited1 := LIMIT(ds, 2);
limited2 := LIMIT(ds, 3);
limited3 := LIMIT(ds, 4);

recovered1 := CATCH(limited1, SKIP);
recovered2 := CATCH(limited2, ONFAIL(FailTransform));
recovered3 := CATCH(CATCH(limited3, FAIL(1, 'Failed, dude')), ONFAIL(FailTransform));

OUTPUT(recovered1);  //empty recordset 
OUTPUT(recovered2);  //
OUTPUT(recovered3);  //

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