Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Improve error reporting in virsh

# HG changeset patch # User john.levon(a)sun.com # Date 1233859425 28800 # Node ID c594c1c54b88947082a01b6aaa81ad7756bbd951 # Parent a23da778e0ddf954d8bf0a185b508fc236feb4be Improve error reporting in virsh Rather than verbosely printing every error, save the last error and report that only if the entire command fails.

+/* + * Report an error when a command finishes. This is better than before + * (when correct operation would report errors), but it has some + * problems: we lose the smarter formatting of virDefaultErrorFunc(), + * and it can become harder to debug problems, if errors get reported + * twice during one command. This case shouldn't really happen anyway, + * and it's IMHO a bug that libvirt does that sometimes. + */ +static void +virshReportError(vshControl *ctl) +{ + if (last_error == NULL) + return; + + if (last_error->code == VIR_ERR_OK) { + vshError(ctl, FALSE, "%s", _("unknown error")); + goto out; + } + + vshError(ctl, FALSE, "%s", last_error->message); + +out: + free(last_error); + last_error = NULL; }