[Engine-devel] IMP: Regarding an issue while translating the error messages for gluster using ErrorTranslator class

[Shubhendu Tripathi]

On 11/06/2013 07:43 PM, Daniel Erez wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Shubhendu Tripathi" <shtripat at redhat.com>
>> To: derez at redhat.com, "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
>> Cc: "Dusmant Pati" <dpati at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 12:07:34 PM
>> Subject: IMP: Regarding an issue while translating the error messages for gluster using ErrorTranslator class
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In the case of Gluster, as there are no one to one mappings available
>> for all the error messages from Gluster, we set the error in the
>> VdcFault object as NULL.
>> We also populate the actual error from the Gluster as error message in
>> the fault object.
>>
>> /getReturnValue().getExecuteFailedMessages().add(error);//
>> //getReturnValue().getFault().setMessage(error);//
>> //getReturnValue().getFault().setError(null);/
>>
>> Because of above settings and the below code snippet in /Frontend.java/
>> class the error message as is gets displayed on the error dialog -
>> /
>> //public String translateVdcFault(final VdcFault fault) {//
>> //        return
>> getVdsmErrorsTranslator().TranslateErrorTextSingle(fault.getError() ==
>> null//
>> //                ? fault.getMessage() : fault.getError().toString());//
>> //}//
>> /
>> Well and good till now !!
>>
>> But while translation of the error messages, all the occurrences of "."
>> get replaced with "_".
>> This causes an issue for the gluster errors. If the error message sent
>> from gluster has "."s (say IP Address of a host or FQDN for a host),
>> that also gets replaced with "_" and the error message does not look
>> correct.
> This mechanism of replacing [1] has been introduced to allow proper
> message translation when retrieving a message key that contains dots.
> E.g. AppErrors.properties -> VALIDATION.ROLES.NAME.MAX is translated
> to VALIDATION_ROLES_NAME_MAX in AppErrors.java interface (as interface
> signatures cannot contain dots. Note that this process shouldn't
> address the message; i.e. only the key is examined for dots.
>
> As you've mentioned VdsmErrorsTranslator I guess there's an issue
> only when translating VdsmErrors messages.
> Can you please send an example of a message usage?
One example of the error message which is shown on the dialog after 
translation is as below -

/"Error while executin action Create Gluster Volume: Volume create 
failed error: Staging failed on //*10_70_43_122_*//Error: /export/vol1-a 
is already part of a volume"/

If you see the highlighted portion not only the dots in IP address but 
also the full stop is changed to "_".
> (and maybe try the same message using AppErrors instead)
There are no one to one mapping of these messages in AppErrors as they 
arise randomly, so in such cases we throw the VDSM error message as is 
on the dialog.
>
> [1] ErrorTranslator -> translateErrorTextSingle()
>
>> Request your suggestion for handling such a case.
>>
>> *PS: *One thing I can think of is, introducing a flag called
>> /isExternalError/ in /VdcFault/ class to identify if the source of the
>> fault is external. From Gluster we would set the flag as /true/, and
>> while replacement of "." with "_", if the flag is set it will not do the
>> replacements.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Shubhendu
>>

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