Bug 142184 - Do not log messages shown as a result of invalid user input
Summary: Do not log messages shown as a result of invalid user input
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Target Management
Classification: Tools
Component: RSE (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 minor (vote)
Target Milestone: Future   Edit
Assignee: David Dykstal CLA
QA Contact: Martin Oberhuber CLA
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Keywords: investigate
: 138357 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 196317 158320
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Reported: 2006-05-17 06:44 EDT by Martin Oberhuber CLA
Modified: 2007-09-17 07:10 EDT (History)
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Description Martin Oberhuber CLA 2006-05-17 06:44:25 EDT 
Under the "Local" subsystem, choose Contextmenu > New > Filter
Tab to the "Subset by file name" box and enter e.g.
   /bla/bla/bla

While typing, lots of errors are being logged to the PDE Error Log.
This should not happen.
Plain user notification of incorrect input should not be logged.
Comment 1 Kushal Munir CLA 2006-05-18 16:00:25 EDT 
RSE does not distinguish between messages shown as a result of invalid user input and actual error messages. The messaging framework logs any error message shown to the user in dialogs and wizards that use ISystemMessageLine. The problem is therefore evident in many RSE dialogs and wizards.

I would like to get thoughts on changing the framework to handle "real" error messages and those that are shown as a result of invalid user input.
Comment 2 Kushal Munir CLA 2006-05-18 17:11:56 EDT 
I'm changing the defect title to reflect the broader need to NOT log messages shown as a result of invalid user input (i.e. not really errors).
Comment 3 Kushal Munir CLA 2006-05-18 17:43:24 EDT 
*** Bug 138357 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Kushal Munir CLA 2006-08-02 09:22:54 EDT 
I'm lowering the bug priority to P3 since this is not causing problems with functionality
Comment 5 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2006-09-25 10:11:58 EDT 
Kushal please check if this has been fixed by bug 158320 and resolve it as "duplicate" if yes.
Comment 6 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2007-07-12 07:07:51 EDT 
(In reply to comment #1)
> The messaging framework logs any error message shown to the user in dialogs
> and wizards that use ISystemMessageLine.

At this point I'd like to understand why this is done - when an error message is shown to the user by means of a dialog, it should not also be logged since it is part of normal system operation. We should use the error log only for unexpected errors.

See also bug #196035 comment 5.