Re: [PATCH 1/3] local-metadata: added a new local source
- From: Iago Toral <itoral igalia com>
- To: <grilo-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] local-metadata: added a new local source
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:17:15 +0000
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:25:07 +0100, "Juan A." Suárez Romero
<jasuarez igalia com> wrote:
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 08:05 +0000, Iago Toral wrote:
(...)
Maybe we should emit an error for these cases too. Not sure, really.
In
these cases, I think adding a GRL_CORE_ERROR_RESOLVE_UNSUPPORTED and
GRL_CORE_ERROR_RESOLVE_REQ_FAILED would be worth.
I don't think we need to be that specific with the error code, we have
GRL_CORE_ERROR_RESOLVE_FAILED and I think that is good enough. The error
message can give the details.
On whether we should provide errors when preconditions are broken,
usually we, at least, use g_return_if_(val)_fail so a critical is
raised, but in no case we just ignore the problem as we are doing here.
There is a problem and we should let the user/developer know about it,
not hide it completely.
Then again, it is not just about the precondition, in this patch even
if we have the data (the URI) it can fail because it is not a proper uri
or is malformed (it checks that it starts with "file").
As I said in my answer to Guillaume, in case we are in doubt I think we
should raise an error: we have nothing to lose with that and it is not
complicated to add, the other option, which is to hide the error, is
always going to be the most problematic choice.
Iago
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