[ovirt-devel] improving VDSM error reporting

[Maor Lipchuk]

I would like to suggest another solution,
Why not let the audit log present the extra error description.
VDSM can override the existing error message before returning it to the
engine with the extra data.

that way you will not have to add  new attributes to the existing API,
and the dialog messages will still be localized.

regards,
Maor

On 05/13/2014 04:50 PM, Yoav Kleinberger wrote:
> well, we can add the python text, and the UX team will decide under what circumstances to display it. At least for some users it will add information.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>
> To: "Yoav Kleinberger" <ykleinbe at redhat.com>
> Cc: devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 4:08:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] improving VDSM error reporting
> 
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 08:31:16AM -0400, Yoav Kleinberger wrote:
>> Hi Dan,
>> A few points:
>>
>> 1. I explained the problem using the existing "message" field. An old VDSM will have the "meaningless" messages, and when working with a new engine they will be displayed to the user.
> 
> As I have shown, "message" is not completely meaningless as it is
> (though it certainly does not add much information beyond the error
> code). I don't suspect that Engine would show the extra "details" to
> just any user. UX folks like to keep the GUI clean and tidy, so only
> experienced users with the right credentials would see them. In some
> (most) cases, "message" would add no information beyond the error code
> and its localized string. But as time passes, we can add more and more
> "meat" to the message.
> 
>> 2. The patch you attached generates the message inside the code for a specific circumstance. However, I want to handle unexpected errors that fly out of the code in a generic way, without needing to understand each and every case. 
> 
> unexpected errors end up with code error 16 and message 'Unexpected
> exception'. Personally, I'd love to replace this message with a
> meaningful traceback.
> 
> Dan.
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