[moby] RE: [MOBY-dev] vote on the RFC discussing Error Reporting

[Mark Wilkinson]

I vote in favor also.

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 07:00 -0800, Edward Kawas wrote:
> I vote in favor.
> 
> Eddie
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: moby-dev-bounces at portal.open-bio.org [mailto:moby-
> > dev-bounces at portal.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of Pieter
> > Neerincx
> > Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 3:56 AM
> > To: Core developer announcements
> > Subject: Re: [MOBY-dev] vote on the RFC discussing Error
> > Reporting
> > 
> > On  27Oct2005, at 24:18, Edward Kawas wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am calling a vote on the RFC that discusses error
> > > reporting.
> > >
> > > Please refer to the following link:
> > > http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1863
> > 
> > I'm in favor of RFC 1863. So I vote yes again. I think
> > it's crucial
> > for the speed of BioMOBY evolution to have have at least
> > some error
> > reporting in place. In the current situation where empty
> > objects are
> > returned if something goes wrong, a user is completely in
> > the dark.
> > Debugging such cases is extremely painful. Currently most
> > users are
> > developers as well so we can look in the log files of the
> > machines
> > where our services are running, but if we want BioMOBY to
> > become more
> > popular with 'normal' users we need some error reporting
> > that makes
> > sense a.s.a.p.
> > 
> > I found two small inconsistencies though:
> > 
> > Page 4 mentions refqueryID, refQuery and refQueryID
> > attributes. Do I
> > get it right that these are typo's and all the same
> > atribute...?
> > 
> > Furtermore I think this:
> > 
> > "refElement -  refers to the articleName of the offending
> > input
> > Simple or Collection"
> > 
> > will be a problem. If it's referring to the articleName it
> > should be
> > called refArticleName. The problem is that articleNames
> > are optional.
> > There is no guarantee they will be present. Furthermore
> > they not need
> > to be unique. In case there are multiple elements of the
> > same type,
> > the articleName attribute can be used to differentiate
> > between them.
> > Hence the combination of element and articleName can be
> > used by a
> > service to find a specific element. If you want to link an
> > execption
> > to a specific element of the input you will need both a
> > refElement
> > and a refArticleName...
> > 
> > So instead of:
> > 
> > <mobyException refElement="input1"
> >                 refQueryID="1"
> >                 severity ="error">
> >      <exceptionCode>600</exceptionCode>
> >      <exceptionMessage>Unable to execute the
> > service</exceptionMessage>
> > </mobyException>
> > 
> > I propose something like this:
> > 
> > <mobyException refElement="String"
> >                 refArticleName="input1"
> >                 refQueryID="1"
> >                 severity ="error">
> >      <exceptionCode>600</exceptionCode>
> >      <exceptionMessage>Unable to execute the
> > service</exceptionMessage>
> > </mobyException>
> > 
> > Just my 2c,
> > 
> > Pieter
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
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