Re: Custom error messages

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Oren Eini (Murphy & Associates)
<v-orene_at_microsoft.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I am currently in the process of building SvnBridge
> (http://www.codeplex.com/SvnBridge/), a Subversion front end that talks to a
> Team System backend.
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> One of the issues that I have run into was with error reporting.
> Specifically, when there is an error on my part, I don't seem to have any
> way to send a human readable message to the user.
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> The issue seems to be related to the way that errors are handled in SVN.
> Under some conditions, it will accept the <m:human-readable errorcode="…">
> string, but in many cases, it will just ignore it, preferring to show a 500
> Internal Server Error instead.
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> Is there a consistent way to be able to send errors to SVN client and have
> it display them to the user?

You could use svnserve instead of mod_dav_svn, which has a pretty
consistent error handling infrastructure.

--dave

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David Glasser | glasser@davidglasser.net | http://www.davidglasser.net/
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