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

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/puppet/util/ldap/connection.rb b/lib/puppet/util/ldap/connection.rb
index 4f71069ef..624bc6f14 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/util/ldap/connection.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/util/ldap/connection.rb
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ class Puppet::Util::Ldap::Connection
 
     # Start our ldap connection.
     def start
-        begin
             case ssl
             when :tls
                 @connection = LDAP::SSLConn.new(host, port, true)
@@ -72,8 +71,7 @@ class Puppet::Util::Ldap::Connection
             @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
+    rescue => detail
             raise Puppet::Error, "Could not connect to LDAP: #{detail}"
-        end
     end
 end