Re: [aether-users] How to distinguish between a fresh and cached "artifa

[Benjamin Bentmann <bentmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Sewe wrote:

> Now, the use case for the above is error reporting. Currently, we log a
> warning message to the Eclipse Error Log whenever model resolution
> fails. If it fails because there really was not model for library X,
> that warning is warranted. However, when I just attempted to resolve
> five minutes ago, got a negative response, cached it
> (setNotFoundCachingEnabled), and am now trying to resolve again, I
> wouldn't want another warning to show up in the Error Log (at most, this
> warrants a debug-level message).

I see, makes sense.

> Thus, I want to be able to distinguish between the two cases.

Unfortunately, checking the exception message itself is the only easy 
way right now to make this distinction. The exception messages aren't 
localized, so while not beauty, this approach should work reliably.


Benjamin