imgcreate/errors.py

   1 #
   2 # errors.py : exception definitions
   3 #
   4 # Copyright 2007, Red Hat  Inc.
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  18
  19 class CreatorError(Exception):
  20     """An exception base class for all imgcreate errors."""
  21     def __init__(self, msg):
  22         Exception.__init__(self, msg)
  23
  24     # Some error messages may contain unicode strings (especially if your system
  25     # locale is different from 'C', e.g. 'de_DE'). Python's exception class does
  26     # not handle this appropriately (at least until 2.5) because str(Exception)
  27     # returns just self.message without ensuring that all characters can be
  28     # represented using ASCII. So we try to return a str and fall back to repr
  29     # if this does not work.
  30     #
  31     # Please use unicode for your error logging strings so that we can really
  32     # print nice error messages, e.g.:
  33     #     log.error(u"Internal error: " % e)
  34     # instead of
  35     #     log.error("Internal error: " % e)
  36     # With our custom __str__ and __unicode__ methods both will work but the
  37     # first log call print a more readable error message.
  38     def __str__(self):
  39         try:
  40             return str(self.message)
  41         except UnicodeEncodeError:
  42             return repr(self.message)
  43
  44     def __unicode__(self):
  45         return unicode(self.message)
  46
  47 class KickstartError(CreatorError):
  48     pass
  49 class MountError(CreatorError):
  50     pass
  51 class SnapshotError(CreatorError):
  52     pass
  53 class SquashfsError(CreatorError):
  54     pass
  55 class ResizeError(CreatorError):
  56     pass