// -*- mode: cpp; mode: fold -*-
// Description /*{{{*/
-// $Id: error.h,v 1.6 1999/01/18 06:20:08 jgg Exp $
+// $Id: error.h,v 1.8 2001/05/07 05:06:52 jgg Exp $
/* ######################################################################
Global Erorr Class - Global error mechanism
#ifndef PKGLIB_ERROR_H
#define PKGLIB_ERROR_H
-#ifdef __GNUG__
-#pragma interface "apt-pkg/error.h"
-#endif
+#include <apt-pkg/macros.h>
+#include <iostream>
+#include <list>
#include <string>
-class GlobalError
+#include <stdarg.h>
+
+class GlobalError /*{{{*/
{
- struct Item
- {
- string Text;
- bool Error;
- Item *Next;
- };
-
- Item *List;
- bool PendingFlag;
- void Insert(Item *I);
-
- public:
+public: /*{{{*/
+ /** \brief a message can have one of following severity */
+ enum MsgType {
+ /** \brief Message will be printed instantly as it is likely that
+ this error will lead to a complete crash */
+ FATAL = 40,
+ /** \brief An error does hinder the correct execution and should be corrected */
+ ERROR = 30,
+ /** \brief indicates problem that can lead to errors later on */
+ WARNING = 20,
+ /** \brief deprecation warnings, old fallback behavior, … */
+ NOTICE = 10,
+ /** \brief for developers only in areas it is hard to print something directly */
+ DEBUG = 0
+ };
- // Call to generate an error from a library call.
- bool Errno(const char *Function,const char *Description,...);
- bool WarningE(const char *Function,const char *Description,...);
+ /** \brief add a fatal error message with errno to the list
+ *
+ * \param Function name of the function generating the error
+ * \param Description format string for the error message
+ *
+ * \return \b false
+ */
+ bool FatalE(const char *Function,const char *Description,...) __like_printf(3) __cold;
- /* A warning should be considered less severe than an error, and may be
- ignored by the client. */
- bool Error(const char *Description,...);
- bool Warning(const char *Description,...);
+ /** \brief add an Error message with errno to the list
+ *
+ * \param Function name of the function generating the error
+ * \param Description format string for the error message
+ *
+ * \return \b false
+ */
+ bool Errno(const char *Function,const char *Description,...) __like_printf(3) __cold;
- // Simple accessors
- inline bool PendingError() {return PendingFlag;};
- inline bool empty() {return List == 0;};
- bool PopMessage(string &Text);
- void Discard();
+ /** \brief add a warning message with errno to the list
+ *
+ * A warning should be considered less severe than an error and
+ * may be ignored by the client.
+ *
+ * \param Function Name of the function generates the warning.
+ * \param Description Format string for the warning message.
+ *
+ * \return \b false
+ */
+ bool WarningE(const char *Function,const char *Description,...) __like_printf(3) __cold;
- // Usefull routine to dump to cerr
- void DumpErrors();
-
- GlobalError();
+ /** \brief add a notice message with errno to the list
+ *
+ * \param Function name of the function generating the error
+ * \param Description format string for the error message
+ *
+ * \return \b false
+ */
+ bool NoticeE(const char *Function,const char *Description,...) __like_printf(3) __cold;
+
+ /** \brief add a debug message with errno to the list
+ *
+ * \param Function name of the function generating the error
+ * \param Description format string for the error message
+ *
+ * \return \b false
+ */
+ bool DebugE(const char *Function,const char *Description,...) __like_printf(3) __cold;
+
+ /** \brief adds an errno message with the given type
+ *
+ * \param type of the error message
+ * \param Function which failed
+ * \param Description of the error
+ */
+ bool InsertErrno(MsgType const &type, const char* Function,
+ const char* Description,...) __like_printf(4) __cold;
+
+ /** \brief adds an errno message with the given type
+ *
+ * args needs to be initialized with va_start and terminated
+ * with va_end by the caller. msgSize is also an out-parameter
+ * in case the msgSize was not enough to store the complete message.
+ *
+ * \param type of the error message
+ * \param Function which failed
+ * \param Description is the format string for args
+ * \param args list from a printf-like function
+ * \param errsv is the errno the error is for
+ * \param msgSize is the size of the char[] used to store message
+ * \return true if the message was added, false if not - the caller
+ * should call this method again in that case
+ */
+ bool InsertErrno(MsgType type, const char* Function,
+ const char* Description, va_list &args,
+ int const errsv, size_t &msgSize);
+
+ /** \brief add an fatal error message to the list
+ *
+ * Most of the stuff we consider as "error" is also "fatal" for
+ * the user as the application will not have the expected result,
+ * but a fatal message here means that it gets printed directly
+ * to stderr in addiction to adding it to the list as the error
+ * leads sometimes to crashes and a maybe duplicated message
+ * is better than "Segfault" as the only displayed text
+ *
+ * \param Description Format string for the fatal error message.
+ *
+ * \return \b false
+ */
+ bool Fatal(const char *Description,...) __like_printf(2) __cold;
+
+ /** \brief add an Error message to the list
+ *
+ * \param Description Format string for the error message.
+ *
+ * \return \b false
+ */
+ bool Error(const char *Description,...) __like_printf(2) __cold;
+
+ /** \brief add a warning message to the list
+ *
+ * A warning should be considered less severe than an error and
+ * may be ignored by the client.
+ *
+ * \param Description Format string for the message
+ *
+ * \return \b false
+ */
+ bool Warning(const char *Description,...) __like_printf(2) __cold;
+
+ /** \brief add a notice message to the list
+ *
+ * A notice should be considered less severe than an error or a
+ * warning and can be ignored by the client without further problems
+ * for some times, but he should consider fixing the problem.
+ * This error type can be used for e.g. deprecation warnings of options.
+ *
+ * \param Description Format string for the message
+ *
+ * \return \b false
+ */
+ bool Notice(const char *Description,...) __like_printf(2) __cold;
+
+ /** \brief add a debug message to the list
+ *
+ * \param Description Format string for the message
+ *
+ * \return \b false
+ */
+ bool Debug(const char *Description,...) __like_printf(2) __cold;
+
+ /** \brief adds an error message with the given type
+ *
+ * \param type of the error message
+ * \param Description of the error
+ */
+ bool Insert(MsgType const &type, const char* Description,...) __like_printf(3) __cold;
+
+ /** \brief adds an error message with the given type
+ *
+ * args needs to be initialized with va_start and terminated
+ * with va_end by the caller. msgSize is also an out-parameter
+ * in case the msgSize was not enough to store the complete message.
+ *
+ * \param type of the error message
+ * \param Description is the format string for args
+ * \param args list from a printf-like function
+ * \param msgSize is the size of the char[] used to store message
+ * \return true if the message was added, false if not - the caller
+ * should call this method again in that case
+ */
+ bool Insert(MsgType type, const char* Description,
+ va_list &args, size_t &msgSize) __cold;
+
+ /** \brief is an error in the list?
+ *
+ * \return \b true if an error is included in the list, \b false otherwise
+ */
+ inline bool PendingError() const {return PendingFlag;};
+
+ /** \brief is the list empty?
+ *
+ * The default checks if the list is empty or contains only notices,
+ * if you want to check if also no notices happend set the parameter
+ * flag to \b false.
+ *
+ * \param WithoutNotice does notices count, default is \b true, so no
+ *
+ * \return \b true if an the list is empty, \b false otherwise
+ */
+ bool empty(MsgType const &trashhold = WARNING) const;
+
+ /** \brief returns and removes the first (or last) message in the list
+ *
+ * \param[out] Text message of the first/last item
+ *
+ * \return \b true if the message was an error, \b false otherwise
+ */
+ bool PopMessage(std::string &Text);
+
+ /** \brief clears the list of messages */
+ void Discard();
+
+ /** \brief outputs the list of messages to the given stream
+ *
+ * Note that all messages are discarded, also the notices
+ * displayed or not.
+ *
+ * \param[out] out output stream to write the messages in
+ * \param threshold minimim level considered
+ * \param mergeStack
+ */
+ void DumpErrors(std::ostream &out, MsgType const &threshold = WARNING,
+ bool const &mergeStack = true);
+
+ /** \brief dumps the list of messages to std::cerr
+ *
+ * Note that all messages are discarded, also the notices
+ * displayed or not.
+ *
+ * \param threshold minimum level printed
+ */
+ void inline DumpErrors(MsgType const &threshold) {
+ DumpErrors(std::cerr, threshold);
+ }
+
+ // mvo: we do this instead of using a default parameter in the
+ // previous declaration to avoid a (subtle) API break for
+ // e.g. sigc++ and mem_fun0
+ /** \brief dumps the messages of type WARNING or higher to std::cerr
+ *
+ * Note that all messages are discarded, displayed or not.
+ *
+ */
+ void inline DumpErrors() {
+ DumpErrors(WARNING);
+ }
+
+ /** \brief put the current Messages into the stack
+ *
+ * All "old" messages will be pushed into a stack to
+ * them later back, but for now the Message query will be
+ * empty and performs as no messages were present before.
+ *
+ * The stack can be as deep as you want - all stack operations
+ * will only operate on the last element in the stack.
+ */
+ void PushToStack();
+
+ /** \brief throw away all current messages */
+ void RevertToStack();
+
+ /** \brief merge current and stack together */
+ void MergeWithStack();
+
+ /** \brief return the deep of the stack */
+ size_t StackCount() const {
+ return Stacks.size();
+ }
+
+ GlobalError();
+ /*}}}*/
+private: /*{{{*/
+ struct Item {
+ std::string Text;
+ MsgType Type;
+
+ Item(char const *Text, MsgType const &Type) :
+ Text(Text), Type(Type) {};
+
+ friend std::ostream& operator<< (std::ostream &out, Item i) {
+ switch(i.Type) {
+ case FATAL:
+ case ERROR: out << "E"; break;
+ case WARNING: out << "W"; break;
+ case NOTICE: out << "N"; break;
+ case DEBUG: out << "D"; break;
+ }
+ return out << ": " << i.Text;
+ }
+ };
+
+ std::list<Item> Messages;
+ bool PendingFlag;
+
+ struct MsgStack {
+ std::list<Item> const Messages;
+ bool const PendingFlag;
+
+ MsgStack(std::list<Item> const &Messages, bool const &Pending) :
+ Messages(Messages), PendingFlag(Pending) {};
+ };
+
+ std::list<MsgStack> Stacks;
+ /*}}}*/
};
+ /*}}}*/
// The 'extra-ansi' syntax is used to help with collisions.
GlobalError *_GetErrorObj();
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