handling of flag-values different from the well-defined ones

[Andy Jung]

Howdy ranchers,

my specification mandates to throw a RecordNotFoundException, if either the specified record cannot be found or has a deleted-flag.
Actually the assignment defines two different values for the short flag:

0x0000 = valid

0x0080 = deleted

What, if due to some mysterious failure to hard drive, the flag I receive turns out to be neither one of those specified?

Is it legal to also throw a RecordNotFoundException in this special case? Or does it have to be one of a different type to exactly match the specification? Or is it better to ignore this problem at all?

Regards,
Andy

[Roel De Nijs]

Hi Andy,

I only did the following check

if (deleteFlag == FLAG_DELETED) { ... }

I think taking care with hard disk failures is a bridge (maybe even 2 or 3) too far.

Kind regards,
Roel