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author | Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> | 2015-11-10 23:51:20 -0700 |
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committer | Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> | 2015-11-11 18:56:26 +0100 |
commit | 455b0fde8c38a0794743e2e7c1a40018b7bee9f6 (patch) | |
tree | 036a4a332b5b713734b536a63987e0cb96118a6b /docs/writing-qmp-commands.txt | |
parent | 3c07587d49458341510360557c849e93e9afaf59 (diff) |
error: More error_setg() usage
A few uses of error_set(ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR) were missed in
c6bd8c706, or have snuck in since. Nuke them.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1447224690-9743-19-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
[Indentation tidied up, commit message tweaked]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/writing-qmp-commands.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | docs/writing-qmp-commands.txt | 20 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/docs/writing-qmp-commands.txt b/docs/writing-qmp-commands.txt index 8647cac4e7..59aa77ae25 100644 --- a/docs/writing-qmp-commands.txt +++ b/docs/writing-qmp-commands.txt @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ if you don't see these strings, then something went wrong. === Errors === QMP commands should use the error interface exported by the error.h header -file. Basically, errors are set by calling the error_set() function. +file. Basically, most errors are set by calling the error_setg() function. Let's say we don't accept the string "message" to contain the word "love". If it does contain it, we want the "hello-world" command to return an error: @@ -219,8 +219,7 @@ void qmp_hello_world(bool has_message, const char *message, Error **errp) { if (has_message) { if (strstr(message, "love")) { - error_set(errp, ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR, - "the word 'love' is not allowed"); + error_setg(errp, "the word 'love' is not allowed"); return; } printf("%s\n", message); @@ -229,10 +228,8 @@ void qmp_hello_world(bool has_message, const char *message, Error **errp) } } -The first argument to the error_set() function is the Error pointer to pointer, -which is passed to all QMP functions. The second argument is a ErrorClass -value, which should be ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR most of the time (more -details about error classes are given below). The third argument is a human +The first argument to the error_setg() function is the Error pointer +to pointer, which is passed to all QMP functions. The next argument is a human description of the error, this is a free-form printf-like string. Let's test the example above. Build qemu, run it as defined in the "Testing" @@ -249,8 +246,9 @@ The QMP server's response should be: } } -As a general rule, all QMP errors should use ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR. There -are two exceptions to this rule: +As a general rule, all QMP errors should use ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR +(done by default when using error_setg()). There are two exceptions to +this rule: 1. A non-generic ErrorClass value exists* for the failure you want to report (eg. DeviceNotFound) @@ -259,8 +257,8 @@ are two exceptions to this rule: want to report, hence you have to add a new ErrorClass value so that they can check for it -If the failure you want to report doesn't fall in one of the two cases above, -just report ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR. +If the failure you want to report falls into one of the two cases above, +use error_set() with a second argument of an ErrorClass value. * All existing ErrorClass values are defined in the qapi-schema.json file |