Shawn Walker wrote:
John Rice wrote:
Hi - this webrev adds logging handlers to the PM and UM. For now they
are just outputting to tmp files:
/var/tmp/packagemanager_info.log
/var/tmp/packagemanager_error.log
var/tmp/updatemanager_info.log
/var/tmp/updatemanager_error.log
Post 2010.03 we can look at hooking them into the GUI so the user can
view them directly from the GUI, but this will be tracked as a
separate enhancement from this bug.
http://cr.opensolaris.org/~jmr/pm_12240_pm_logging_10Dec_940pm/
12240 PM / UM need to intercept and display client messages
The only thing I'd like to see is a suggestion by the GUI to check
these log files for more information when operations fail.
Shawn - we need any API calls which emit Errors to give an appropriate
return code, if they are not going to throw an Exception. Then we know
we have an error state and can modify any Error message we output and
reference the log files. There are a variety of different Error dialogs
in use by the GUI and putting a general message in all of them to refer
to the logs does not seem appropriate.
So I'd like to land what we have, document the log files in the Help and
work with you folks to get suitable return codes in place over the
coming months so we can handle this in a robust fashion in the GUI. If
we have a failure in an API call and an error is emitted to the log one
possibility is to flag the condition in the Status Bar as we did for
Search failures and allow the user to click on an error icon to bring up
the logs for them to review. Similar functionality exits in NetBeans and
Firefox to signal none fatal errors to the user. It will be post 2010.03.
JR
Cheers,
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