[jsr-314-open] Adding a description field to the JavaScript event payload

[Roger Kitain]

+1.  Something to "improve" (or better yet - "fix"  ;-)  )  usability 
issues is a must.

-roger

Jim Driscoll wrote:
> I'd like to propose that we add a freeform text description field to 
> the JavaScript event and error payload.
>
> This would allow for user readable descriptions to go along with 
> errors like the infamous "MalformedXML" error.
>
> I think this could fit into an errata, since:
> 1) It's got no backward incompatibility impact.
> 2) It's a single line in the spec.
> 3) It's (almost) trivial to implement.
>
> and most importantly:
> 4) We really should have had this in there in the first place, and 
> it's omission was really more of an oversight than a deliberate choice.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> I've opened up spec issue 570 to track this:
> https://javaserverfaces-spec-public.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=570 
>
>
> And yes, I made it a P1.
>
> Jim