[news.eclipse.technology.imp] Re: Error handling - where to define messa

["Peter B" <peter.backsti@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi and thanks for reply!
I will send a post to the LPG people at SourceForge

BR

Peter




"Robert M. Fuhrer" <rfuhrer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet 
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> Peter B wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> This is probably a LPG question, but I have not understod if IMP and LPG
>> are separated so I ask the question here - hope that this is OK.
>>
>> I have been playing with IMP / LPG and found it very cool.
>> But my first trial lacks good error message, in fact almost useless.
>>
>> So my question is perhaps rather basic; how can I generate better error
>> messages and where should I defined them?
>>
>> Any help in this matter appreciated.
>
> Yes, this is really an LPG question, and should be in a FAQ somewhere.
>
> The short answer is that the interface ParseErrorCodes defines some
> slightly more useful (but basic) messages for the various error codes,
> which the error message-producing code (e.g. the MessageHandlerAdapter)
> can use to generate better messages than the default.
>
> I recently made some minor changes to MessageHandlerAdapter to make use
> of the information in ParseErrorCodes, but the messages, though better,
> are still obviously sub-optimal. Those changes are checked in, but not
> released on the update site. I've also asked Philippe Charles (Mr. LPG)
> for some more guidance as to how to get better messages by default.
>
> Can you direct the question to the LPG forum at SourceForge (where LPG
> lives)? I'll ping Philippe to make sure he sees it.
>
> -- 
> Cheers,
>   -- Bob
>
> --------------------------------
> Robert M. Fuhrer
> Research Staff Member
> Programming Technologies Dept.
> IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
>
> IDE Meta-tooling Platform Project Lead (http://www.eclipse.org/imp)
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