Code smell: Avoid unneeded blocks

Replaced 45 occurances of

    (DEF)
        begin
            (LINES)
        rescue(.*)
            (LINES)
        end
    end

with

3 Examples:

    The code:
        def find(name)
            begin
                self.const_get(name.to_s.capitalize)
            rescue
                puts "Unable to find application '#{name.to_s}'."
                Kernel::exit(1)
            end
        end
    becomes:
        def find(name)
                self.const_get(name.to_s.capitalize)
        rescue
                puts "Unable to find application '#{name.to_s}'."
                Kernel::exit(1)
        end
    The code:
        def exit_on_fail(message, code = 1)
            begin
                yield
            rescue RuntimeError, NotImplementedError => detail
                puts detail.backtrace if Puppet[:trace]
                $stderr.puts "Could not #{message}: #{detail}"
                exit(code)
            end
        end
    becomes:
        def exit_on_fail(message, code = 1)
                yield
        rescue RuntimeError, NotImplementedError => detail
                puts detail.backtrace if Puppet[:trace]
                $stderr.puts "Could not #{message}: #{detail}"
                exit(code)
        end
    The code:
        def start
            begin
                case ssl
                when :tls
                    @connection = LDAP::SSLConn.new(host, port, true)
                when true
                    @connection = LDAP::SSLConn.new(host, port)
                else
                    @connection = LDAP::Conn.new(host, port)
                end
                @connection.set_option(LDAP::LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION, 3)
                @connection.set_option(LDAP::LDAP_OPT_REFERRALS, LDAP::LDAP_OPT_ON)
                @connection.simple_bind(user, password)
            rescue => detail
                raise Puppet::Error, "Could not connect to LDAP: #{detail}"
            end
        end
    becomes:
        def start
                case ssl
                when :tls
                    @connection = LDAP::SSLConn.new(host, port, true)
                when true
                    @connection = LDAP::SSLConn.new(host, port)
                else
                    @connection = LDAP::Conn.new(host, port)
                end
                @connection.set_option(LDAP::LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION, 3)
                @connection.set_option(LDAP::LDAP_OPT_REFERRALS, LDAP::LDAP_OPT_ON)
                @connection.simple_bind(user, password)
        rescue => detail
                raise Puppet::Error, "Could not connect to LDAP: #{detail}"
        end

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/lib/puppet/network/format_handler.rb b/lib/puppet/network/format_handler.rb
index 70e33a054..b5817d544 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/network/format_handler.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/network/format_handler.rb
@@ -9,14 +9,12 @@ module Puppet::Network::FormatHandler
         attr_reader :format
 
         def protect(method, args)
-            begin
                 Puppet::Network::FormatHandler.format(format).send(method, *args)
-            rescue => details
+        rescue => details
                 direction = method.to_s.include?("intern") ? "from" : "to"
                 error = FormatError.new("Could not #{method} #{direction} #{format}: #{details}")
                 error.set_backtrace(details.backtrace)
                 raise error
-            end
         end
 
         def initialize(format)
diff --git a/lib/puppet/network/xmlrpc/client.rb b/lib/puppet/network/xmlrpc/client.rb
index e19275759..2bf30e729 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/network/xmlrpc/client.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/network/xmlrpc/client.rb
@@ -196,11 +196,9 @@ module Puppet::Network
         end
 
         def start
-            begin
                 @http.start unless @http.started?
-            rescue => detail
+        rescue => detail
                 Puppet.err "Could not connect to server: #{detail}"
-            end
         end
 
         def local