Blair Zajac wrote on Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:55:37 -0800:
> On 12/21/10 10:40 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>> Blair Zajac wrote on Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:16:56 -0800:
>>> 4) In svn_repos_fs_commit_txn(), which order should errors be composed?
>>> svn_fs_commit_txn()'s error as the parent followed by the
>>> SVN_ERR_REPOS_POST_COMMIT_HOOK_FAILED error as a child? This seems to be
>>> the standard ordering of chained errors. On the other hand, it makes it
>>> harder to find a post-commit script error.
>>
>> Actually, it will make it impossible to detect post-commit errors over
>> ra_dav, since that RA layer marshals only the outermost error code in an
>> error chain.
>
> ra_dav already checks for SVN_ERR_REPOS_POST_COMMIT_HOOK_FAILED, it could
> use svn_error_has_cause() to find it.
How can it do that if only the topmost error code is marshalled?
I first discovered that ra_dav only marshals the outermost error code
(and its error message, but nothing else of the chain) when I worked on
the atomic-revprops branch. In dev@ archives there should be some
discussions of how error chain marshalling might be implemented, but
eventually I solved the problem differently for that branch (by using
another error-signalling mechanism).
ra_svn marshals full error chains.
> If ra_dav cannot find a
> SVN_ERR_REPOS_POST_COMMIT_HOOK_FAILED but there is an error and the
> commit succeeded, then I think the parent error should be returned to
> warn people there may be an issue with the server.
>
> Blair
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