[infinispan-dev] use %s syntax for formatting exception messages

[Pete Muir]

Yes I think people really like the "certainty" associated with error codes - they are sure the error they are getting is the same as the other persons. Now we just need to actually start using the codes in wiki pages ;-)

On 16 Mar 2011, at 14:18, Vladimir Blagojevic wrote:

> Not only Oracle but our own Weld has this. It is awesome. I googled error codes and fixed the problem immediately. Fantastic idea! 
> 
> On 11-03-16 6:39 AM, Manik Surtani wrote:
>> Yup.  Essentially if anyone's ever worked with Oracle DB, plugging an ORA-12345 error code into Google usually gives you details of the error regardless of the i18n error message you find in the logs.
>> 
>> On 16 Mar 2011, at 09:08, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
>> 
>>> The road taken by JBoss Logging is to:
>>>  - associate an alphanumerical code that you can search on the internet. And of course by default messages are in English.
>>>  - use methods to generate the log call
>>> 
>>> in Infinispan code
>>> if ( txLog == null ) {
>>>    LOG.txLogPushError(txId);
>>> }
>>> 
>>> @MessageLogger( projectCode = "ISPN" )
>>> public interfaceInfinispanLogger extends BasicLogger {
>>>     @LogMessage( level = ERROR )
>>>     @Message( value = "Error pushing tx log (tx id=%1$)", id = 345 )
>>>     void txLogPushError(String txId);
>>> 
>>> in your app log
>>> ISPN000345 Error pushing tx log (tx id=3232)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> later on, on a wiki page
>>> 
>>> ISPN-000345 Error pushing tx log
>>> When this happens, you're screwed unless you use JBoss Transaction and then...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I could not really find the doc for JBoss Logging but David will know where it is.
>>> 
>>> On 16 mars 2011, at 09:42, Tristan Tarrant wrote:
>>> 
>>>> The only problem I have with this is that if all error / logging messages are i18n'ed, they will be difficult to search for on the web / forums / wikis. 
>>>> For this reason all error messages should include a locale-independent error code. Numeric is ok, but I'd rather have a "readable" error code. 
>>>> For example the string "Error pushing tx log" in InvertedLeaveTask.java would become "TX_LOG_PUSH_ERR: Error pushing tx log".
>>>> 
>>>> Any thoughts on this ?
>>>> 
>>>> Tristan
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 09:09, Galder Zamarreño <galder at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 15, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Manik Surtani wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> >
>>>> > On 15 Mar 2011, at 17:21, Mircea Markus wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On 15 Mar 2011, at 17:17, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >>> As David pointed out %1$ is superior to %s for internationalization.
>>>> >> Agreed.
>>>> >> Not sure we want i18n for logs and error messages (?)
>>>> >
>>>> > It's on our roadmap and a requirement for a few downstream projects/products.
>>>> 
>>>> Yup: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-380
>>>> 
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> > Manik Surtani
>>>> > manik at jboss.org
>>>> > twitter.com/maniksurtani
>>>> >
>>>> > Lead, Infinispan
>>>> > http://www.infinispan.org
>>>> >
>>>> >
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>>>> Sr. Software Engineer
>>>> Infinispan, JBoss Cache
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>> 
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