Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (116 mails)

[Jiri Srain <jsrain@xxxxxxx>]

Dne pondělí 18 červen 2007 14:09 Stanislav Visnovsky napsal(a):
> Dňa Po 18. Jún 2007 14:06 Michael Andres napísal:
> > At various locations we catch exceptions and translate them into other
> > exceptions.
> >
> > Would it be helpfull, if we'd create a simple stack of error strings in
> > class Exception? So we could store and propagate the old Exceptions
> > asString and/or asUserString.
> >
> > Something like this:
> >
> >      Failed to create repository.
> >      -Reason: Failed to parse some file
> >      -Reason: Failed to provide some file
> >      -Reason: File not found
> >
> >
> > But it's only worth the efford, if the UI is willing to display such
> > multiline stacklike error messages.
>
> How should UI report this? Typically, user is interested in 1 and last
> message of the stack (reason & the overall result)

If we don't want to get the whole stack, all we need is the bottom-most line. 
The application always knows that it wanted to create a repository and does 
not need to get this message from libzypp.

Having the whole stack may help in case of bug reports without log (but eg. 
with a screenshot).

Jiri

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Jiri Srain
YaST Team Leader
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