Re: auditor raises an exception

Tom Ekberg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.bug-tracking.roundup.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ralf,

Thanks for confirming that it should display a message to the user. I had changed exception handling to handle detector errors better. My bad. In hyperdb.py Class.fireAuditors it now catches ValueError and Reject exceptions, and rethrows them. Other exceptions will generate a stack trace, display 'An error has occurred' to the user, and send an email to roundup-admin. Now the prohibited characters error message is displayed to the user.

Tom Ekberg
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University of Washington Medical Center
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On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:

> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:44:20 +0100
> From: Ralf Schlatterbeck <[email protected]>
> To: Tom Ekberg <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Roundup-users] auditor raises an exception
> 
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:51:13AM -0800, Tom Ekberg wrote:
>> I wrote an auditor that checks to make sure that certain prohibited
>> characters are not present. The code works fine, except that when the
>> check finds prohibited characters it has to raise an exception
>> (Reject) to indicate failure. The user is presented with a 'An error
>> has occurred' page, and I, as the admin, get an email with the stack
>> trace. What I'd like is to have the user shown the error, similar to
>> what happens when a user fails to enter data in a required field. Is
>> it possible to hook into that part of roundup, or should I raise a
>> different exception? I have tried Reject and ValueError - both send me
>> the stack trace and show the user the 'An error has occurred' page.
>
> Can you show us the code?
> Raising a Reject in an auditor (not in a reactor which runs *after* the
> datebase is updated) should give you a nice error message in the web
> interface, same for ValueError (for historical reasons in the ancient
> past of roundup).
>
> Ralf
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