From 2888e26ec62b271e4cb94350cf7ae8ae0f40ba76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luca Saiu <positron@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 16:37:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] pEp::Utils::file_read: throw exception instead of calling
 exit on failure

This fixes the JSON server adapter which has just switched from the old slurp
module to this functionality, which was not completely compatible because of its
way of failing.
---
 src/std_utils.cc | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/std_utils.cc b/src/std_utils.cc
index cb98e7d..6926cf2 100644
--- a/src/std_utils.cc
+++ b/src/std_utils.cc
@@ -170,8 +170,7 @@ namespace pEp {
             auto ss = ostringstream{};
             ifstream input_file(filename);
             if (!input_file.is_open()) {
-                runtime_error e{ "Could not open the file: " + filename };
-                exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+                throw runtime_error ("Could not open the file: " + filename);
             }
             ss << input_file.rdbuf();
             return ss.str();