dear google, any chance of better error messages from the android classes? usually, the java frameworks have nice developer-friendly (as opposed to user-friendly) messages in exceptions when things go wrong. but it seems that with the android.* packages, errors are unexpected and the message is invariably some variation on --
error code -1: unknown error -- which isn't very helpful. that's the actual error message when an application tries to open a socket and doesn't have internet permission. this led to numerous list threads etc which could have been avoided if the piece of code discovering the problem and throwing the exception had included a better message. then the solution would have been obvious. i'm running into another one at the moment. if MediaPlayer doesn't like the data it's presented with, it will throw during prepare(). the error message i'm looking at is -- error: Prepare failed: status=0xffffffff -- which is, you guessed it, error code -1 again. there are numerous possible error cases here, and the code which threw the exception knew what the problem was, so why didn't it tell us? i'm going to have to start another list thread on streaming http, because i can't tell what the problem is. i *know* prepare() failed, how about telling me WHY?? thanks in advance. j --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. 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/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
