From 52bed0b89a1dca99c94af91f606b3da4b7de5f43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Artem Pavlenko <artem@mapnik.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:34:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] applied patch from Jochen (throw an exception if unknown
 type)

---
 include/mapnik/image_util.hpp | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 src/image_util.cpp            |  1 +
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/mapnik/image_util.hpp b/include/mapnik/image_util.hpp
index 1d0f9cea2..f31a18ccf 100644
--- a/include/mapnik/image_util.hpp
+++ b/include/mapnik/image_util.hpp
@@ -37,6 +37,22 @@
 
 namespace mapnik {
     
+    class ImageWriterException : public std::exception
+    {
+    private:
+        std::string message_;
+    public:
+        ImageWriterException(const std::string& message) 
+            : message_(message) {}
+
+        ~ImageWriterException() throw() {}
+
+        virtual const char* what() const throw()
+        {
+            return message_.c_str();
+        }
+    };
+
    template <typename T>
    MAPNIK_DECL void save_to_file(std::string const& filename,
                                  std::string const& type,
diff --git a/src/image_util.cpp b/src/image_util.cpp
index d694dd8b9..e8520cbe9 100644
--- a/src/image_util.cpp
+++ b/src/image_util.cpp
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ namespace mapnik
          if (type=="png")  save_as_png(file,image);
          else if (type == "png256") save_as_png256(file,image);
          else if (type=="jpeg") save_as_jpeg(file,85,image);
+         else throw ImageWriterException("unknown file type: " + type);
       } 
    }