Failed tasks: I want to provide additional information in Activity section

[Michael Schneider <Mi...@virtustream.com>]

Hi!

I have some custom effector implemented by means of a Brooklyn task, and this effector call may fail, in which case an exception is thrown. In case of an exception, the Brooklyn GUI "Activity" section shows the message of the exception and also the whole stack trace, which is good. However, my exception has some custom methods associated to custom fields that provide additional information about the cause of the error. In my particular case, it is the exit code and the stderr output of an external program that was run by the effector task. I now wonder whether there a way to somehow show this additional information in the Activity section? I understand that one way to do this would be to add this information to the exception message, but I would like to avoid this, if there were an alternative means to show custom information in the Activity section.

Michael

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Re: Failed tasks: I want to provide additional information in Activity section

[Svetoslav Neykov <sv...@cloudsoftcorp.com>]

Hi Michael,

You could try overriding the getStatusString(int) method of your task to build a custom error message. Refer to the BasicTask method implementation for reference.

Svet.


> On 17.06.2015 г., at 19:10, Michael Schneider <Mi...@virtustream.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I have some custom effector implemented by means of a Brooklyn task, and this effector call may fail, in which case an exception is thrown. In case of an exception, the Brooklyn GUI "Activity" section shows the message of the exception and also the whole stack trace, which is good. However, my exception has some custom methods associated to custom fields that provide additional information about the cause of the error. In my particular case, it is the exit code and the stderr output of an external program that was run by the effector task. I now wonder whether there a way to somehow show this additional information in the Activity section? I understand that one way to do this would be to add this information to the exception message, but I would like to avoid this, if there were an alternative means to show custom information in the Activity section.
> 
> Michael
> 
> Michael Schneider
> Senior Software Engineer
> 
> Virtustream Inc.
> 6 Concourse Parkway | Suite 1930 | Atlanta | GA 30328
> Cell: +49 (176) 24102310
> michael.schneider@virtustream.com<ma...@virtustream.com> | www.virtustream.com<http://www.virtustream.com/>
> 
> Keep up with Virtustream:
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> 
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