GlobalError Class Reference

## Public Types

enum | MsgType { FATAL = 40 , ERROR = 30 , WARNING = 20 , NOTICE = 10 , AUDIT = 5 , DEBUG = 0 }
| a message can have one of following severity More...

## Public Member Functions

bool | FatalE (const char *Function, const char *Description,...) APT_PRINTF(3) APT_COLD
| add a fatal error message with errno to the list
bool | Errno (const char *Function, const char *Description,...) APT_PRINTF(3) APT_COLD
| add an Error message with errno to the list
bool | WarningE (const char *Function, const char *Description,...) APT_PRINTF(3) APT_COLD
| add a warning message with errno to the list
bool | NoticeE (const char *Function, const char *Description,...) APT_PRINTF(3) APT_COLD
| add a notice message with errno to the list
bool | AuditE (const char *Function, const char *Description,...) APT_PRINTF(3) APT_COLD
| add an audit message with errno to the list
bool | DebugE (const char *Function, const char *Description,...) APT_PRINTF(3) APT_COLD
| add a debug message with errno to the list
bool | InsertErrno (MsgType const &type, const char *Function, const char *Description,...) APT_PRINTF(4) APT_COLD
| adds an errno message with the given type
bool | InsertErrno (MsgType type, const char *Function, const char *Description, va_list &args, int const errsv, size_t &msgSize) APT_COLD
| adds an errno message with the given type
bool | Fatal (const char *Description,...) APT_PRINTF(2) APT_COLD
| add an fatal error message to the list
bool | Error (const char *Description,...) APT_PRINTF(2) APT_COLD
| add an Error message to the list
bool | Warning (const char *Description,...) APT_PRINTF(2) APT_COLD
| add a warning message to the list
bool | Notice (const char *Description,...) APT_PRINTF(2) APT_COLD
| add a notice message to the list
bool | Audit (const char *Description,...) APT_PRINTF(2) APT_COLD
| add an audit message to the list
bool | Debug (const char *Description,...) APT_PRINTF(2) APT_COLD
| add a debug message to the list
bool | Insert (MsgType const &type, const char *Description,...) APT_PRINTF(3) APT_COLD
| adds an error message with the given type
bool | Insert (MsgType type, const char *Description, va_list &args, size_t &msgSize) APT_COLD
| adds an error message with the given type
bool | PendingError () const APT_PURE
| is an error in the list?
bool | empty (MsgType const &threshold=WARNING) const APT_PURE
| is the list empty?
bool | PopMessage (std::string &Text)
| returns and removes the first (or last) message in the list
void | Discard ()
| clears the list of messages
void | DumpErrors (std::ostream &out, MsgType const &threshold=WARNING, bool const &mergeStack=true)
| outputs the list of messages to the given stream
void | DumpErrors (MsgType const &threshold)
| dumps the list of messages to std::cerr
void | DumpErrors ()
| dumps the messages of type WARNING or higher to std::cerr
void | PushToStack ()
| put the current Messages into the stack
void | RevertToStack ()
| throw away all current messages
void | MergeWithStack ()
| merge current and stack together
size_t | StackCount () const APT_PURE
| return the deep of the stack

## Friends

APT_HIDDEN friend std::ostream & | operator<< (std::ostream &out, GlobalError::Item i)

## Member Enumeration Documentation

## MsgType

enum MsgType

a message can have one of following severity

Enumerator
FATAL | Message will be printed instantly as it is likely that this error will lead to a complete crash.
ERROR | An error does hinder the correct execution and should be corrected.
WARNING | indicates problem that can lead to errors later on
NOTICE | deprecation warnings, old fallback behavior, …
AUDIT | future deprecation warnings, divergence from best practices
DEBUG | for developers only in areas it is hard to print something directly

## Member Function Documentation

## Audit()

bool Audit | ( | const char * | Description,
|  |  | ... )

add an audit message to the list

An audit message highlights divergences from best practices and future deprecations. It my for example include additional messages targeted at repository owners.

Parameters

  Description | Format string for the message

Returns
  false

References Audit().

Referenced by Audit().

## AuditE()

bool AuditE | ( | const char * | Function,
|  | const char * | Description,
|  |  | ... )

add an audit message with errno to the list

Parameters

  Function | name of the function generating the error
  Description | format string for the error message

Returns
  false

References AuditE().

Referenced by AuditE().

## Debug()

bool Debug | ( | const char * | Description,
|  |  | ... )

add a debug message to the list

Parameters

  Description | Format string for the message

Returns
  false

References Debug(), and Insert().

Referenced by Debug().

## DebugE()

bool DebugE | ( | const char * | Function,
|  | const char * | Description,
|  |  | ... )

add a debug message with errno to the list

Parameters

  Function | name of the function generating the error
  Description | format string for the error message

Returns
  false

References DebugE(), and InsertErrno().

Referenced by DebugE().

## DumpErrors() [1/3]

void DumpErrors | ( |  | ) |

inline

dumps the messages of type WARNING or higher to std::cerr

Note that all messages are discarded, displayed or not.

References DumpErrors(), and WARNING.

## DumpErrors() [2/3]

void DumpErrors | ( | MsgType const & | threshold | ) |

inline

dumps the list of messages to std::cerr

Note that all messages are discarded, also the notices displayed or not.

Parameters

  threshold | minimum level printed

References DumpErrors().

## DumpErrors() [3/3]

void DumpErrors | ( | std::ostream & | out,
|  | MsgType const & | threshold = WARNING,
|  | bool const & | mergeStack = true )

outputs the list of messages to the given stream

Note that all messages are discarded, even undisplayed ones.

Parameters

  [out] | out | output stream to write the messages in
  | threshold | minimum level considered
  | mergeStack | if true recursively dumps the entire stack

References Discard().

Referenced by DumpErrors(), and DumpErrors().

## empty()

bool empty | ( | MsgType const & | threshold = WARNING | ) | const

is the list empty?

Can be used to check if the current stack level doesn't include anything equal or more severe than a given threshold, defaulting to warning level for historic reasons.

Parameters

  threshold | minimum level considered

Returns
  true if the list is empty, false otherwise

## Errno()

bool Errno | ( | const char * | Function,
|  | const char * | Description,
|  |  | ... )

add an Error message with errno to the list

Parameters

  Function | name of the function generating the error
  Description | format string for the error message

Returns
  false

References Errno().

Referenced by Errno().

## Error()

bool Error | ( | const char * | Description,
|  |  | ... )

add an Error message to the list

Parameters

  Description | Format string for the error message.

Returns
  false

References Error().

Referenced by Error().

## Fatal()

bool Fatal | ( | const char * | Description,
|  |  | ... )

add an fatal error message to the list

Most of the stuff we consider as "error" is also "fatal" for the user as the application will not have the expected result, but a fatal message here means that it gets printed directly to stderr in addition to adding it to the list as the error leads sometimes to crashes and a maybe duplicated message is better than "Segfault" as the only displayed text

Parameters

  Description | Format string for the fatal error message.

Returns
  false

References Fatal().

Referenced by Fatal().

## FatalE()

bool FatalE | ( | const char * | Function,
|  | const char * | Description,
|  |  | ... )

add a fatal error message with errno to the list

Parameters

  Function | name of the function generating the error
  Description | format string for the error message

Returns
  false

## Insert() [1/2]

ERROR NOTICE DEBUG bool Insert | ( | MsgType const & | type,
|  | const char * | Description,
|  |  | ... )

adds an error message with the given type

Parameters

  type | of the error message
  Description | of the error

References Insert().

Referenced by Debug(), Insert(), and InsertErrno().

## Insert() [2/2]

bool Insert | ( | MsgType | type,
|  | const char * | Description,
|  | va_list & | args,
|  | size_t & | msgSize )

adds an error message with the given type

args needs to be initialized with va_start and terminated with va_end by the caller. msgSize is also an out-parameter in case the msgSize was not enough to store the complete message.

Parameters

  type | of the error message
  Description | is the format string for args
  args | list from a printf-like function
  msgSize | is the size of the char[] used to store message

Returns
  true if the message was added, false if not - the caller should call this method again in that case

References DEBUG, ERROR, and FATAL.

## InsertErrno() [1/2]

ERROR NOTICE DEBUG bool InsertErrno | ( | MsgType const & | type,
|  | const char * | Function,
|  | const char * | Description,
|  |  | ... )

adds an errno message with the given type

Parameters

  type | of the error message
  Function | which failed
  Description | of the error

References InsertErrno().

Referenced by DebugE(), and InsertErrno().

## InsertErrno() [2/2]

bool InsertErrno | ( | MsgType | type,
|  | const char * | Function,
|  | const char * | Description,
|  | va_list & | args,
|  | int const | errsv,
|  | size_t & | msgSize )

adds an errno message with the given type

args needs to be initialized with va_start and terminated with va_end by the caller. msgSize is also an out-parameter in case the msgSize was not enough to store the complete message.

Parameters

  type | of the error message
  Function | which failed
  Description | is the format string for args
  args | list from a printf-like function
  errsv | is the errno the error is for
  msgSize | is the size of the char[] used to store message

Returns
  true if the message was added, false if not - the caller should call this method again in that case

References Insert().

## Notice()

bool Notice | ( | const char * | Description,
|  |  | ... )

add a notice message to the list

A notice should be considered less severe than an error or a warning and can be ignored by the client without further problems for some times, but he should consider fixing the problem. This error type can be used for e.g. deprecation warnings of options.

Parameters

  Description | Format string for the message

Returns
  false

References Notice().

Referenced by Notice().

## NoticeE()

bool NoticeE | ( | const char * | Function,
|  | const char * | Description,
|  |  | ... )

add a notice message with errno to the list

Parameters

  Function | name of the function generating the error
  Description | format string for the error message

Returns
  false

References NoticeE().

Referenced by NoticeE().

## PendingError()

bool PendingError | ( |  | ) | const

inline

is an error in the list?

Returns
  true if an error is included in the list, false otherwise

References PendingError().

Referenced by PendingError().

## PopMessage()

bool PopMessage | ( | std::string & | Text | ) |

returns and removes the first (or last) message in the list

Parameters

  [out] | Text | message of the first/last item

Returns
  true if the message was an error, false otherwise

References ERROR, and FATAL.

## PushToStack()

void PushToStack | ( |  | ) |

put the current Messages into the stack

All "old" messages will be pushed into a stack to them later back, but for now the Message query will be empty and performs as no messages were present before.

The stack can be as deep as you want - all stack operations will only operate on the last element in the stack.

References Discard().

## Warning()

bool Warning | ( | const char * | Description,
|  |  | ... )

add a warning message to the list

A warning should be considered less severe than an error and may be ignored by the client.

Parameters

  Description | Format string for the message

Returns
  false

References Warning().

Referenced by Warning().

## WarningE()

bool WarningE | ( | const char * | Function,
|  | const char * | Description,
|  |  | ... )

add a warning message with errno to the list

A warning should be considered less severe than an error and may be ignored by the client.

Parameters

  Function | Name of the function generates the warning.
  Description | Format string for the warning message.

Returns
  false

References WarningE().

Referenced by WarningE().

The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

- apt-pkg/contrib/error.h
- apt-pkg/contrib/error.cc