anth...@codemonkey.ws writes: > Hi, > > We had a violent^Wheated discussion on IRC about how to move forward > with Luiz's proposed error series. I think we reached consensus. This > note attempts to outline that. > > Principles > ---------- > 1. Errors should be free formed strings with a class code > > 2. There should be a small number of class codes (10-15) added > strictly when there are specific users of a code. > > 3. The class code should be expressed as an enum data type in the normal > QMP schema. Other than this, errors should have no structure in the > schema.[*] > > 4. We should drop all dictionary arguments in the current error > mechanisms beyond 'class' and 'desc'. > > 5. The following errors are used by libvirt: > - CommandNotFound: QMP parsing > - DeviceNotActive/KVMMissingCap: ballooning > - DeviceNotFound: drive_del > - MigrationExpected: cont > > 6. We need to make sure that these errors are preserved while other > errors should be consolidated. > - We need to state very clear for 1.2 which errors are going away. > > 7. We need to make sure that anything we expose in 1.2 stays that way. > If we're dropping 'InvalidParameterType' as a class code, it should be > dropped in 1.2. This could be achieved by making all existing codes > except for those in (5) report 'UnknownError' or something.[*]
I'd call it 'Error'. > [*] I took a little bit of license with these. Hopefully it's not > controversial. Forward progress! ACK
