qemu/include/qapi/error.h
Markus Armbruster 8277d2aa58 error: New error_prepend(), error_reportf_err()
Instead of simply propagating an error verbatim, we sometimes want to
add to its message, like this:

    frobnicate(arg, &err);
    error_setg(errp, "Can't frobnicate %s: %s",
                     arg, error_get_pretty(err));
    error_free(err);

This is suboptimal, because it loses err's hint (if any).  Moreover,
when errp is &error_abort or is subsequently propagated to
&error_abort, the abort message points to the place where we last
added to the error, not to the place where it originated.

To avoid these issues, provide means to add to an error's message in
place:

    frobnicate(arg, errp);
    error_prepend(errp, "Can't frobnicate %s: ", arg);

Likewise, reporting an error like

    frobnicate(arg, &err);
    error_report("Can't frobnicate %s: %s", arg, error_get_pretty(err));

can lose err's hint.  To avoid:

    error_reportf_err(err, "Can't frobnicate %s: ", arg);

The next commits will put these functions to use.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1450452927-8346-10-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
2016-01-13 15:16:17 +01:00

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/*
* QEMU Error Objects
*
* Copyright IBM, Corp. 2011
* Copyright (C) 2011-2015 Red Hat, Inc.
*
* Authors:
* Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
* Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
*
* This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, version 2. See
* the COPYING.LIB file in the top-level directory.
*/
/*
* Error reporting system loosely patterned after Glib's GError.
*
* Create an error:
* error_setg(&err, "situation normal, all fouled up");
*
* Create an error and add additional explanation:
* error_setg(&err, "invalid quark");
* error_append_hint(&err, "Valid quarks are up, down, strange, "
* "charm, top, bottom.\n");
*
* Do *not* contract this to
* error_setg(&err, "invalid quark\n"
* "Valid quarks are up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom.");
*
* Report an error to stderr:
* error_report_err(err);
* This frees the error object.
*
* Report an error to stderr with additional text prepended:
* error_reportf_err(err, "Could not frobnicate '%s': ", name);
*
* Report an error somewhere else:
* const char *msg = error_get_pretty(err);
* do with msg what needs to be done...
* error_free(err);
* Note that this loses hints added with error_append_hint().
*
* Handle an error without reporting it (just for completeness):
* error_free(err);
*
* Assert that an expected error occurred, but clean it up without
* reporting it (primarily useful in testsuites):
* error_free_or_abort(&err);
*
* Pass an existing error to the caller:
* error_propagate(errp, err);
* where Error **errp is a parameter, by convention the last one.
*
* Pass an existing error to the caller with the message modified:
* error_propagate(errp, err);
* error_prepend(errp, "Could not frobnicate '%s': ", name);
*
* Create a new error and pass it to the caller:
* error_setg(errp, "situation normal, all fouled up");
*
* Call a function and receive an error from it:
* Error *err = NULL;
* foo(arg, &err);
* if (err) {
* handle the error...
* }
*
* Call a function ignoring errors:
* foo(arg, NULL);
*
* Call a function aborting on errors:
* foo(arg, &error_abort);
*
* Call a function treating errors as fatal:
* foo(arg, &error_fatal);
*
* Receive an error and pass it on to the caller:
* Error *err = NULL;
* foo(arg, &err);
* if (err) {
* handle the error...
* error_propagate(errp, err);
* }
* where Error **errp is a parameter, by convention the last one.
*
* Do *not* "optimize" this to
* foo(arg, errp);
* if (*errp) { // WRONG!
* handle the error...
* }
* because errp may be NULL!
*
* But when all you do with the error is pass it on, please use
* foo(arg, errp);
* for readability.
*
* Receive and accumulate multiple errors (first one wins):
* Error *err = NULL, *local_err = NULL;
* foo(arg, &err);
* bar(arg, &local_err);
* error_propagate(&err, local_err);
* if (err) {
* handle the error...
* }
*
* Do *not* "optimize" this to
* foo(arg, &err);
* bar(arg, &err); // WRONG!
* if (err) {
* handle the error...
* }
* because this may pass a non-null err to bar().
*/
#ifndef ERROR_H
#define ERROR_H
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include "qemu/compiler.h"
#include "qapi-types.h"
/*
* Opaque error object.
*/
typedef struct Error Error;
/*
* Overall category of an error.
* Based on the qapi type QapiErrorClass, but reproduced here for nicer
* enum names.
*/
typedef enum ErrorClass {
ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR = QAPI_ERROR_CLASS_GENERICERROR,
ERROR_CLASS_COMMAND_NOT_FOUND = QAPI_ERROR_CLASS_COMMANDNOTFOUND,
ERROR_CLASS_DEVICE_ENCRYPTED = QAPI_ERROR_CLASS_DEVICEENCRYPTED,
ERROR_CLASS_DEVICE_NOT_ACTIVE = QAPI_ERROR_CLASS_DEVICENOTACTIVE,
ERROR_CLASS_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND = QAPI_ERROR_CLASS_DEVICENOTFOUND,
ERROR_CLASS_KVM_MISSING_CAP = QAPI_ERROR_CLASS_KVMMISSINGCAP,
} ErrorClass;
/*
* Get @err's human-readable error message.
*/
const char *error_get_pretty(Error *err);
/*
* Get @err's error class.
* Note: use of error classes other than ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR is
* strongly discouraged.
*/
ErrorClass error_get_class(const Error *err);
/*
* Create a new error object and assign it to *@errp.
* If @errp is NULL, the error is ignored. Don't bother creating one
* then.
* If @errp is &error_abort, print a suitable message and abort().
* If @errp is &error_fatal, print a suitable message and exit(1).
* If @errp is anything else, *@errp must be NULL.
* The new error's class is ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR, and its
* human-readable error message is made from printf-style @fmt, ...
* The resulting message should be a single phrase, with no newline or
* trailing punctuation.
*/
#define error_setg(errp, fmt, ...) \
error_setg_internal((errp), __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__, \
(fmt), ## __VA_ARGS__)
void error_setg_internal(Error **errp,
const char *src, int line, const char *func,
const char *fmt, ...)
GCC_FMT_ATTR(5, 6);
/*
* Just like error_setg(), with @os_error info added to the message.
* If @os_error is non-zero, ": " + strerror(os_error) is appended to
* the human-readable error message.
*/
#define error_setg_errno(errp, os_error, fmt, ...) \
error_setg_errno_internal((errp), __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__, \
(os_error), (fmt), ## __VA_ARGS__)
void error_setg_errno_internal(Error **errp,
const char *fname, int line, const char *func,
int os_error, const char *fmt, ...)
GCC_FMT_ATTR(6, 7);
#ifdef _WIN32
/*
* Just like error_setg(), with @win32_error info added to the message.
* If @win32_error is non-zero, ": " + g_win32_error_message(win32_err)
* is appended to the human-readable error message.
*/
#define error_setg_win32(errp, win32_err, fmt, ...) \
error_setg_win32_internal((errp), __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__, \
(win32_err), (fmt), ## __VA_ARGS__)
void error_setg_win32_internal(Error **errp,
const char *src, int line, const char *func,
int win32_err, const char *fmt, ...)
GCC_FMT_ATTR(6, 7);
#endif
/*
* Propagate error object (if any) from @local_err to @dst_errp.
* If @local_err is NULL, do nothing (because there's nothing to
* propagate).
* Else, if @dst_errp is NULL, errors are being ignored. Free the
* error object.
* Else, if @dst_errp is &error_abort, print a suitable message and
* abort().
* Else, if @dst_errp is &error_fatal, print a suitable message and
* exit(1).
* Else, if @dst_errp already contains an error, ignore this one: free
* the error object.
* Else, move the error object from @local_err to *@dst_errp.
* On return, @local_err is invalid.
*/
void error_propagate(Error **dst_errp, Error *local_err);
/*
* Prepend some text to @errp's human-readable error message.
* The text is made by formatting @fmt, @ap like vprintf().
*/
void error_vprepend(Error **errp, const char *fmt, va_list ap);
/*
* Prepend some text to @errp's human-readable error message.
* The text is made by formatting @fmt, ... like printf().
*/
void error_prepend(Error **errp, const char *fmt, ...)
GCC_FMT_ATTR(2, 3);
/*
* Append a printf-style human-readable explanation to an existing error.
* @errp may be NULL, but not &error_fatal or &error_abort.
* Trivially the case if you call it only after error_setg() or
* error_propagate().
* May be called multiple times. The resulting hint should end with a
* newline.
*/
void error_append_hint(Error **errp, const char *fmt, ...)
GCC_FMT_ATTR(2, 3);
/*
* Convenience function to report open() failure.
*/
#define error_setg_file_open(errp, os_errno, filename) \
error_setg_file_open_internal((errp), __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__, \
(os_errno), (filename))
void error_setg_file_open_internal(Error **errp,
const char *src, int line, const char *func,
int os_errno, const char *filename);
/*
* Return an exact copy of @err.
*/
Error *error_copy(const Error *err);
/*
* Free @err.
* @err may be NULL.
*/
void error_free(Error *err);
/*
* Convenience function to assert that *@errp is set, then silently free it.
*/
void error_free_or_abort(Error **errp);
/*
* Convenience function to error_report() and free @err.
*/
void error_report_err(Error *err);
/*
* Convenience function to error_prepend(), error_report() and free @err.
*/
void error_reportf_err(Error *err, const char *fmt, ...)
GCC_FMT_ATTR(2, 3);
/*
* Just like error_setg(), except you get to specify the error class.
* Note: use of error classes other than ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR is
* strongly discouraged.
*/
#define error_set(errp, err_class, fmt, ...) \
error_set_internal((errp), __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__, \
(err_class), (fmt), ## __VA_ARGS__)
void error_set_internal(Error **errp,
const char *src, int line, const char *func,
ErrorClass err_class, const char *fmt, ...)
GCC_FMT_ATTR(6, 7);
/*
* Pass to error_setg() & friends to abort() on error.
*/
extern Error *error_abort;
/*
* Pass to error_setg() & friends to exit(1) on error.
*/
extern Error *error_fatal;
#endif