[jira] [Commented] (ASTERIXDB-1828) Ugly error message for bad quote characters!

[Michael J. Carey (JIRA)]

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Michael J. Carey commented on ASTERIXDB-1828:
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Thanks, Till, for the patch that made this SO much better!  Our error messages 
look generally great now (cleanliness wise and also content-wise.)  There is 
still one case, where quotes are actually involved, where we could perhaps 
improve this in terms of escaping and quotes - not sure:
QUERY: 1+"foo"";
ERROR: Lexical error at line 1, column 10.  Encountered: <EOF> after : 
&quot;\&quot;;&quot; [ParseException]


> Ugly error message for bad quote characters!
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ASTERIXDB-1828
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ASTERIXDB-1828
>             Project: Apache AsterixDB
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: AsterixDB, Compiler, Error Reporting, Translator - 
> SQL++, Web Interface
>         Environment: Mac OSX 
>            Reporter: Michael J. Carey
>            Assignee: Ian Maxon
>
> This sequence of steps:
> {noformat}
>     DROP DATAVERSE TinySocial2 IF EXISTS;
>     CREATE DATAVERSE TinySocial2;
>     USE TinySocial2;
>     CREATE TYPE GleambookMessageType AS {
>         messageId: int,
>         authorId: int,
>         inResponseTo: int?,
>         senderLocation: point?,
>         message: string
>     };
>     CREATE DATASET GleambookMessages(GleambookMessageType)
>         PRIMARY KEY messageId;
>     INSERT INTO GleambookMessages ([
>         
> {"messageId":1,"authorId":3,"inResponseTo”:2,”senderLocation":point("47.16,77.75"),"message":"
>  love sprint its shortcut-menu is awesome:)”},
>         
> {"messageId":2,"authorId":1,"inResponseTo":4,"senderLocation":point("41.66,80.87"),"message":"
>  dislike iphone its touch-screen is horrible"}
>     ]);
> {noformat}
> Yields this poor user experience due to all the quote escaping gobbledy gook:
> {noformat}
> Syntax error: In line 19 >>        
> {&quot;messageId&quot;:2,&quot;authorId&quot;:1,&quot;inResponseTo&quot;:4,&quot;senderLocation&quot;:point(&quot;41.66,80.87&quot;),&quot;message&quot;:&quot;
>  dislike iphone its touch-screen is horrible&quot;}<< Encountered 
> <IDENTIFIER> &quot;messageId&quot; at column 11.  [CompilationException]
> {noformat}



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