Hi, My name is Sachin Gupta and I am student of Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, in my final year of undergraduate course in Computer Science. I have been developing a project entirely based on Django for the last 4 months. Here is the link <http://www.mycareerstack.com/> and it has been absolutely fun using Django. But I have had my share of trouble with the error reporting so I wanted to contribute to improve it. In some of the cases the error reports came up were so unrelated it took me some time to eventually figure it out. I would like to list a few of them here:
1) One of the very basic one is that in some cases where we may have an indentation error, it is not reported which file has that error. It just throws indentation error in views.py For a new developer it may appear that the error is in the views.py file in the root directory(if one such exists) but the error may actually be in any of the views.py file of the apps. 2) Another error that bugged me for a long time was related with comment_was_posted signal. I made a mistake in the listener function for the comment_was_posted signal So whenever I posted a comment, I got the error IntegrityError at /comments/post/ The integrity error was at the listener of the signal, but the url does not depict that. 3) Another point (it may be intentional) is that if some attribute is missing in the Queryset or the attribute name is wrongly written (in the then template) a TemplateError is not raised. It just fails silently. Personally, I feel that it should throw some error, otherwise it can lead to some bugs that might be difficult to discover. These are some of the errors that, if reported would have made things easier for me. Although I have used django extensively, I am not quite familiar with the error reporting facility. I have forked the git repository on github and will go through it in the next few days. Since this is also listed as a topic for GSoC 2012, I am interested in applying for that. Meanwhile it would be great if I can be suggested some pointers. Cheers Sachin Gupta -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/-/DGqEVIAVOb0J. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
