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Posted to dev@commons.apache.org by Christian Sell <ch...@netcologne.de> on 2003/01/29 17:21:32 UTC

[beanutils] error messages

Hello,

I am using beanutils from within Jelly, and find that error reporting 
from beanutils really needs improvement. For example, if an accessor 
method throws an exception, ConvertinWrapDynaBean rethrows an error with 
a message indicating that the accessor was not found. Very misleading.

Also, the error messages dont indicate the method signature. For the end 
user who sees these messages (esp. with Jelly), this can easily be the 
point of desperation.

thanks,
Christian


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Re: [beanutils] error messages

Posted by "Craig R. McClanahan" <cr...@apache.org>.

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Christian Sell wrote:

> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:21:32 +0100
> From: Christian Sell <ch...@netcologne.de>
> Reply-To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <co...@jakarta.apache.org>
> To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <co...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Subject: [beanutils] error messages
>
> Hello,
>
> I am using beanutils from within Jelly, and find that error reporting
> from beanutils really needs improvement. For example, if an accessor
> method throws an exception, ConvertinWrapDynaBean rethrows an error with
> a message indicating that the accessor was not found. Very misleading.
>
> Also, the error messages dont indicate the method signature. For the end
> user who sees these messages (esp. with Jelly), this can easily be the
> point of desperation.
>

Please post specific cases (ideally with patches to improve the messages)
as bug reports in:

  http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/

> thanks,
> Christian
>

Craig

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Re: [beanutils] error messages

Posted by robert burrell donkin <ro...@blueyonder.co.uk>.
hi Christian

it'd be very useful if you could enter bug reports giving details of each 
bad error message. (i doubt whether any of the beanutils team have the 
energy to do a complete review the error handling.)

what'd be even better is if you could create and then attach patches to 
these bug reports that fix these problems.

if you're not sure who to do this, take a look at the jakarta web site:

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/patches.html

http://jakarta.apache.org/site/getinvolved.html

TIA

- robert

On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 04:21 PM, Christian Sell wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am using beanutils from within Jelly, and find that error reporting 
> from beanutils really needs improvement. For example, if an accessor 
> method throws an exception, ConvertinWrapDynaBean rethrows an error with 
> a message indicating that the accessor was not found. Very misleading.
>
> Also, the error messages dont indicate the method signature. For the end 
> user who sees these messages (esp. with Jelly), this can easily be the 
> point of desperation.
>
> thanks,
> Christian
>
>
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