[Engine-devel] Showing stacktrace info in GUI error dialog

[Greg Sheremeta]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme at redhat.com>
> To: "Einav Cohen" <ecohen at redhat.com>
> Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>, "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 12:35:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Showing stacktrace info in GUI error dialog
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Einav Cohen" <ecohen at redhat.com>
> > To: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>, "users" <users at ovirt.org>,
> > "Martin Perina" <mperina at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 11:23:34 AM
> > Subject: [Engine-devel] Showing stacktrace info in GUI error dialog
> > 
> > Hi, this is about patch [1] - showing server-side-exception
> > stacktrace info in GUI error dialog.
> > 
> > a couple of notes about this patch:
> > 
> > (1) I find it a little strange that server-side exceptions
> > are not logged in the server side and are / will be displayed
> > only on the client-side - this needs to be fixed first.
> > 
> +1.
> 
> > (2) once everything is logged on the server side, we can
> > debate whether it makes sense to put the full exception
> > stack-trace *also* in the GUI error pop-up.
> > I think that it is not completely necessary (since if there
> > is a server side exception, the user is likely to go to the
> > server side log anyway to get the full picture / context), but
> > if it is (and I'd like to hear your opinion about that) - we
> > shouldn't show the entire exception in the dialog once the dialog
> > is displayed - that's too much information to absorb.
> > We should show whatever we are showing today, and also something
> > like a "More Details" collapsible section (collapsed by default)
> > that, when expanded, displays the full exception details.
> > 
> > comments are welcome.
> 
> I personally appreciate web apps that allow me to see an error (or even
> expose an entire log file), but do so gracefully -- hide it under a option,

That should read "under a menu option"

> use a "More Details" option like you mention, etc.
> 
> I think saving a person the step of ssh'ing to a server and digging for a log
> file is a nice-to-have.
> 
> Greg
> 
> > 
> > ----
> > Thanks,
> > Einav
> > 
> > [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/23096/
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