Re: [Libreoffice] uno discoverability

On 16/11/11 11:25, Michael Meeks wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 20:34 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote:

> > 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 :-)

EasyHack filed:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42982

> > 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 :-)

Stephan recently added an OSL_FORMAT, that should be useful here...