Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10]: QError v4

[Markus Armbruster]

Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> writes:

> Jamie Lokier wrote:
>> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>   
>>> Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>>     
>>>> 3. It falls short of the requirement that clients can easily present a
>>>>   human-readable error description to their human users, regardless of
>>>>   whether they know the error or not.
>>>>        
>>> That's just incorrect.  We provide an example conversion table
>>> that's akin to strerror() or a __repr__ for an exception in Python.
>>>     
>>
>> Markus refers to errors that the client does not know - i.e. when the
>> client is older than qemu, or is not in the same development branch if
>> it's a branched qemu.  Which means the client won't have a fully up to
>> date conversion table.
>>
>> Do you mean qemu provides it's current conversion table to the client
>> over the wire protocol?
>>   
>
> (qemu) format_error "{'class': 'DeviceNotFound', 'data' : {'addr':
> 00:11:22'} }"
> Device 0:11:22 is not present
>
> Is what I'm thinking.  I don't think it's needed but it solves the
> "problem".

Any particular reason not put it into the error object and be done with
it?