On Aug 24, 2007, at 4:00 AM, Christian Zagrodnick wrote:

Hi

I'm implementing the getValidationErrors thingy right now and once again stumbled upon the ValidationErrors. Their __repr__ is all but useful.

For instance "TooSmall":

TooSmall(8, 10)
8 10

Another sort of related issue is that you only get the __doc__ string when calling the .doc() method. "Value is too small." doesn't help a lot.

Something like "The value 8 is too small. At least 10 is required." would be much more informative.

What should we do about this?

While better __str__s or __reprs__ is often nice, as a general principal, errors should be displayed through adaptation -- basically views.

Jim

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