Christian Zagrodnick wrote:
I'm implementing the getValidationErrors thingy right now and once again
stumbled upon the ValidationErrors. Their __repr__ is all but useful.
For instance "TooSmall":
TooSmall(8, 10)
8 10
Another sort of related issue is that you only get the __doc__ string
when calling the .doc() method. "Value is too small." doesn't help a lot.
Something like "The value 8 is too small. At least 10 is required."
would be much more informative.
What should we do about this?
I'd say, fix it :). You seem to have a pretty good understanding of how
this should be fixed already.
Note that a ValidationError's docstring is used for the error message in
forms. A change will therefore likely cause functional tests to break,
both within Zope and especially in 3rd party packages. I think this is
an acceptable risk to take as long as we're *improving* the error
messages (which is hard to do w/o breaking some ftests).
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