----- Original Message ----- > > > Hi folks, > > right now many of plugins send error messages without prefixing the plugin > they come from, this bad practice is also continued in our examples. > > many error messages also close with `\n`, although this is not necessary. > > We should fix this by "normalizing" the way we send those error messages. > > My proposal is either: > > TSError("%s: cannot parse file %s", PLUGIN_NAME, filename); > > xor: > > TSError("[%s] cannot parse file %s", PLUGIN_NAME, filename); > > I have no strong leanings towards either. BUT: We should have one consistent > format between examples and plugins, as well as newly imported code. > > The word "error" should not be repeated, as it is already in the "severity > (`TSError()`). There should be *no* `\n` at the end of the message. > > Normally I would just grep the source and see which use-case is the > prevailing one, but I'm too tired and I'm flying to Ireland tomorrow, > so I'm leaving this as "an exercise to the student" ;) > > reference issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-2106
I've been looking at this for the past two days and I must say, so far the combination I like best are the macros in the gzip plugin: #define debug(fmt, args...) do { \ TSDebug(PLUGIN_NAME, "DEBUG: [%s:%d] [%s] " fmt, __FILE__, __LINE__, __FUNCTION__ , ##args ); \ } while (0) #define info(fmt, args...) do { \ TSDebug(PLUGIN_NAME, "INFO: " fmt, ##args ); \ } while (0) #define warning(fmt, args...) do { \ TSDebug(PLUGIN_NAME, "WARNING: " fmt, ##args ); \ } while (0) #define error(fmt, args...) do { \ TSError("[%s], [%s:%d] [%s] ERROR: " fmt, PLUGIN_NAME, __FILE__, __LINE__, __FUNCTION__ , ##args ); \ TSDebug(PLUGIN_NAME, "[%s:%d] [%s] ERROR: " fmt, __FILE__, __LINE__, __FUNCTION__ , ##args ); \ } while (0) #define fatal(fmt, args...) do { \ error(fmt, ##args ); \ exit(-1); \ } while (0) What'd you think we make this a default API? perhaps under the name of TSPlugin$Severity(...) ? This of course assumes that there *is* define (or constant) PLUGIN_NAME, as is our practice.. is this a good idea? --i