On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:39:41 +0200
"Michal Filka" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I fully agree. Moreover, sometimes when exception is raised, module
> do not complain at all and silently exits. That's (in my POV) very
> confusing behavior for a user.
> 

To be precise it is not silenty, but it sets exit code to non-zero
value :) But I agree that it is bad behavior and also happen in old
code when something goes wrong and nil is returned.
Josef

> Michal
> 
> > Hi,
> > as YaST currently lives in ruby and we would like to make code nice
> > and benefit from its features it would be nice to change slightly
> > current exception handling on outer bounds.
> >
> > Current exception handling involve only catching exception, logs it
> > and then return false for clients and nil in other cases. I found
> > it quite problematic, because problem is hidden inside logs ( and
> > such behavior makes me crazy in past ) and module looks like
> > working, except that it doesn't work, so it make impression that
> > YaST doesn't work.
> >
> > I propose to change such behavior. If any uncatch exception is
> > catch on bound ( it meands between ruby<->perl or in calling
> > clients ), then Report.Error is used to notify that something goes
> > wrong, with hint that you should report it and maybe message and
> > last two places of exception there? And of course log full
> > exception to log.
> >
> > Advantage of proposal is inform user that something goes wrong, so
> > he doesn't get impression that YaST doesn't work (in case that you
> > want to do something and nothing happened), just that YaST have a
> > bug. We also can be less afraid of using nature ruby syntax and ruby
> > exceptions, as we quickly recognize during testing that something is
> > wrong and we can fix it.
> >
> > Any comments, ideas, counter-proposals?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Josef

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