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On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 20:34 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote:
com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException:

 >>>

        Presumably python is showing you the message embedded in the exception
(which is empty ?) or do we miss even that ?

in a lot of UNO API implementations the only form of error reporting 
used is "throw RuntimeException;", which leaves (as you correctly note) 
a lot to be desired in terms of usability for the hapless API user.

        Quite :-)

this definitely ought to be an easy hack, as putting a more helpful 
error message in there can really be done by anyone: patches welcome.

        IMHO we need to make that code efficient by having a var-args style
helper:

        throw FooException("Failure loading file '%S' code %d",
                           aOUStr.pData, nCode);

        That would also be fairly code size efficient as well vs. the
heavy-lifting, and big string-buffer construction madness :-)

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 20:09 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote:
but AFAIK currently the extensive API documentation that is in the
IDL files is only available on the web; it ought to be possible to
store that in the rdb files somehow and then have some thingy in UNO
that allows programmatic access, so things like help in python can
extract it?  hmm... maybe there's an easy-hack somewhere in there...

        Certainly rather an 'advanced' easy hack but worth doing :-) I would be
-extremely- skeptical of putting more data into types.rdb though - that
is still using the hideous 'store' code that everyone should be eager to
see the back of, and which wastes space and I/O left and right like
nobody's business :-) Even after some work to shrink that we have
(commas added to size for effect):

-rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 10,649,600 Nov 11 20:44 offapi.rdb
-rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 13,647,356 Nov 16 10:21 offapi.rdb.regview-output
-rw-r--r-- 1 michael users  1,834,902 Nov 11 20:44 offapi.rdb.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 michael users  1,375,023 Nov 16 10:21 offapi.rdb.regview-output.gz

        It'd be great to use a more pleasant format like Stephan's new configmr
XML - if we can get the performance we need there; and of course add the
API docs to some parallel docs file, only loaded when needed
(interactively by developers). But of course it's a good idea.

        ATB,

                Michael.

-- 
michael.meeks@suse.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot


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