Jeremy D. Miller • 6/9/2026

Result pattern or throwing exceptions? Wolverine says “neither”

This article discusses error handling approaches in .NET development, comparing traditional exception throwing and the Result<T> pattern. It introduces Wolverine's middleware-based approach that uses attributes like [Entity(Required = true)] and FluentValidation to handle common errors (404s, 400s) without exceptions or Result wrappers. The framework also supports retries and dead-lettering for genuine failures, promoting cleaner endpoint code and automatic OpenAPI metadata generation.

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#error handling #Dotnet #Exceptions