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Subject: Re: catching python exception in pcaspy
From: Jameson Graef Rollins <[email protected]>
To: Xiaoqiang Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Tech Talk <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 15:26:39 -0700
On Sun, Jul 07 2013, Xiaoqiang Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have the same headache when debugging pcas applications.  The server
> tool library does not provides an exception handler, like in the CA
> client library, this error could only be checked from the
> console. Even though, the error seems ambiguous and can not be
> directly related to the python code.
>
> So I normally separate functions into its own module/class/function
> and test them.  And then interface to it by subclassing pcaspy Driver.

Hi, Xiaoqiang.  This method seems less than ideal, since without
subclassing the pcaspy.Driver to begin with a lot of the important
functionality is not testable.  For instance, db read/writes are not
possible, which is an important aspect of what the driver does.

I don't yet understand how the server itself works, or how pcaspy wraps
it, but I'm perplexed as to how the python exception is suppressed.  Is
there no way we could at least coax the server into display the python
exception error message to the console?

In lieu of that, would it be possible to put together some sort of dummy
server that would maybe not have all the functionality of the main
server, but would expose the python exceptions for testing?

jamie.

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