Re: possible freeze break: pyatspi2 should raise LookupError for IPC errors

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Mike Gorse wrote:

> Pyatspi2 is raising different exceptions from the original pyatspi
> in the case of an IPC error.  This causes problems with Orca and
> LDTP since they have code that expects specific exceptions, and with
> pyatspi2 they are getting exceptions that they do not expect,
> leading to tracebacks and test failures.
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645644
> 
> I've tested with orca and Firefox and with some event monitoring
> code based on the code in Accerciser.
> 
> The patch adds a wrapper function to convert exceptions and modifies
> functions to use it.

There has been a patch already to orca to catch RuntimeException; is
this still releavant? Should the orca commit be reverted?


        Frederic