4 * Copyright IBM, Corp. 2011
5 * Copyright (C) 2011-2015 Red Hat, Inc.
8 * Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
9 * Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
11 * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, version 2. See
12 * the COPYING.LIB file in the top-level directory.
16 * Error reporting system loosely patterned after Glib's GError.
19 * error_setg(&err, "situation normal, all fouled up");
21 * Create an error and add additional explanation:
22 * error_setg(&err, "invalid quark");
23 * error_append_hint(&err, "Valid quarks are up, down, strange, "
24 * "charm, top, bottom.\n");
26 * Do *not* contract this to
27 * error_setg(&err, "invalid quark\n"
28 * "Valid quarks are up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom.");
30 * Report an error to the current monitor if we have one, else stderr:
31 * error_report_err(err);
32 * This frees the error object.
34 * Likewise, but with additional text prepended:
35 * error_reportf_err(err, "Could not frobnicate '%s': ", name);
37 * Report an error somewhere else:
38 * const char *msg = error_get_pretty(err);
39 * do with msg what needs to be done...
41 * Note that this loses hints added with error_append_hint().
43 * Handle an error without reporting it (just for completeness):
46 * Assert that an expected error occurred, but clean it up without
47 * reporting it (primarily useful in testsuites):
48 * error_free_or_abort(&err);
50 * Pass an existing error to the caller:
51 * error_propagate(errp, err);
52 * where Error **errp is a parameter, by convention the last one.
54 * Pass an existing error to the caller with the message modified:
55 * error_propagate_prepend(errp, err);
58 * error_propagate(errp, err);
59 * error_prepend(errp, "Could not frobnicate '%s': ", name);
60 * because this fails to prepend when @errp is &error_fatal.
62 * Create a new error and pass it to the caller:
63 * error_setg(errp, "situation normal, all fouled up");
65 * Call a function and receive an error from it:
72 * Call a function ignoring errors:
75 * Call a function aborting on errors:
76 * foo(arg, &error_abort);
78 * Call a function treating errors as fatal:
79 * foo(arg, &error_fatal);
81 * Receive an error and pass it on to the caller:
86 * error_propagate(errp, err);
88 * where Error **errp is a parameter, by convention the last one.
90 * Do *not* "optimize" this to
92 * if (*errp) { // WRONG!
95 * because errp may be NULL!
97 * But when all you do with the error is pass it on, please use
101 * Receive and accumulate multiple errors (first one wins):
102 * Error *err = NULL, *local_err = NULL;
104 * bar(arg, &local_err);
105 * error_propagate(&err, local_err);
107 * handle the error...
110 * Do *not* "optimize" this to
112 * bar(arg, &err); // WRONG!
114 * handle the error...
116 * because this may pass a non-null err to bar().
122 #include "qapi/qapi-types-error.h"
125 * Overall category of an error.
126 * Based on the qapi type QapiErrorClass, but reproduced here for nicer
129 typedef enum ErrorClass
{
130 ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR
= QAPI_ERROR_CLASS_GENERICERROR
,
131 ERROR_CLASS_COMMAND_NOT_FOUND
= QAPI_ERROR_CLASS_COMMANDNOTFOUND
,
132 ERROR_CLASS_DEVICE_NOT_ACTIVE
= QAPI_ERROR_CLASS_DEVICENOTACTIVE
,
133 ERROR_CLASS_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND
= QAPI_ERROR_CLASS_DEVICENOTFOUND
,
134 ERROR_CLASS_KVM_MISSING_CAP
= QAPI_ERROR_CLASS_KVMMISSINGCAP
,
138 * Get @err's human-readable error message.
140 const char *error_get_pretty(const Error
*err
);
143 * Get @err's error class.
144 * Note: use of error classes other than ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR is
145 * strongly discouraged.
147 ErrorClass
error_get_class(const Error
*err
);
150 * Create a new error object and assign it to *@errp.
151 * If @errp is NULL, the error is ignored. Don't bother creating one
153 * If @errp is &error_abort, print a suitable message and abort().
154 * If @errp is &error_fatal, print a suitable message and exit(1).
155 * If @errp is anything else, *@errp must be NULL.
156 * The new error's class is ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR, and its
157 * human-readable error message is made from printf-style @fmt, ...
158 * The resulting message should be a single phrase, with no newline or
159 * trailing punctuation.
160 * Please don't error_setg(&error_fatal, ...), use error_report() and
161 * exit(), because that's more obvious.
162 * Likewise, don't error_setg(&error_abort, ...), use assert().
164 #define error_setg(errp, fmt, ...) \
165 error_setg_internal((errp), __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__, \
166 (fmt), ## __VA_ARGS__)
167 void error_setg_internal(Error
**errp
,
168 const char *src
, int line
, const char *func
,
169 const char *fmt
, ...)
173 * Just like error_setg(), with @os_error info added to the message.
174 * If @os_error is non-zero, ": " + strerror(os_error) is appended to
175 * the human-readable error message.
177 * The value of errno (which usually can get clobbered by almost any
178 * function call) will be preserved.
180 #define error_setg_errno(errp, os_error, fmt, ...) \
181 error_setg_errno_internal((errp), __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__, \
182 (os_error), (fmt), ## __VA_ARGS__)
183 void error_setg_errno_internal(Error
**errp
,
184 const char *fname
, int line
, const char *func
,
185 int os_error
, const char *fmt
, ...)
190 * Just like error_setg(), with @win32_error info added to the message.
191 * If @win32_error is non-zero, ": " + g_win32_error_message(win32_err)
192 * is appended to the human-readable error message.
194 #define error_setg_win32(errp, win32_err, fmt, ...) \
195 error_setg_win32_internal((errp), __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__, \
196 (win32_err), (fmt), ## __VA_ARGS__)
197 void error_setg_win32_internal(Error
**errp
,
198 const char *src
, int line
, const char *func
,
199 int win32_err
, const char *fmt
, ...)
204 * Propagate error object (if any) from @local_err to @dst_errp.
205 * If @local_err is NULL, do nothing (because there's nothing to
207 * Else, if @dst_errp is NULL, errors are being ignored. Free the
209 * Else, if @dst_errp is &error_abort, print a suitable message and
211 * Else, if @dst_errp is &error_fatal, print a suitable message and
213 * Else, if @dst_errp already contains an error, ignore this one: free
215 * Else, move the error object from @local_err to *@dst_errp.
216 * On return, @local_err is invalid.
217 * Please don't error_propagate(&error_fatal, ...), use
218 * error_report_err() and exit(), because that's more obvious.
220 void error_propagate(Error
**dst_errp
, Error
*local_err
);
224 * Propagate error object (if any) with some text prepended.
226 * error_prepend(&local_err, fmt, ...);
227 * error_propagate(dst_errp, local_err);
229 void error_propagate_prepend(Error
**dst_errp
, Error
*local_err
,
230 const char *fmt
, ...);
233 * Prepend some text to @errp's human-readable error message.
234 * The text is made by formatting @fmt, @ap like vprintf().
236 void error_vprepend(Error
**errp
, const char *fmt
, va_list ap
);
239 * Prepend some text to @errp's human-readable error message.
240 * The text is made by formatting @fmt, ... like printf().
242 void error_prepend(Error
**errp
, const char *fmt
, ...)
246 * Append a printf-style human-readable explanation to an existing error.
247 * If the error is later reported to a human user with
248 * error_report_err() or warn_report_err(), the hints will be shown,
249 * too. If it's reported via QMP, the hints will be ignored.
250 * Intended use is adding helpful hints on the human user interface,
251 * e.g. a list of valid values. It's not for clarifying a confusing
253 * @errp may be NULL, but not &error_fatal or &error_abort.
254 * Trivially the case if you call it only after error_setg() or
256 * May be called multiple times. The resulting hint should end with a
259 void error_append_hint(Error
**errp
, const char *fmt
, ...)
263 * Convenience function to report open() failure.
265 #define error_setg_file_open(errp, os_errno, filename) \
266 error_setg_file_open_internal((errp), __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__, \
267 (os_errno), (filename))
268 void error_setg_file_open_internal(Error
**errp
,
269 const char *src
, int line
, const char *func
,
270 int os_errno
, const char *filename
);
273 * Return an exact copy of @err.
275 Error
*error_copy(const Error
*err
);
281 void error_free(Error
*err
);
284 * Convenience function to assert that *@errp is set, then silently free it.
286 void error_free_or_abort(Error
**errp
);
289 * Convenience function to warn_report() and free @err.
290 * The report includes hints added with error_append_hint().
292 void warn_report_err(Error
*err
);
295 * Convenience function to error_report() and free @err.
296 * The report includes hints added with error_append_hint().
298 void error_report_err(Error
*err
);
301 * Convenience function to error_prepend(), warn_report() and free @err.
303 void warn_reportf_err(Error
*err
, const char *fmt
, ...)
307 * Convenience function to error_prepend(), error_report() and free @err.
309 void error_reportf_err(Error
*err
, const char *fmt
, ...)
313 * Just like error_setg(), except you get to specify the error class.
314 * Note: use of error classes other than ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR is
315 * strongly discouraged.
317 #define error_set(errp, err_class, fmt, ...) \
318 error_set_internal((errp), __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__, \
319 (err_class), (fmt), ## __VA_ARGS__)
320 void error_set_internal(Error
**errp
,
321 const char *src
, int line
, const char *func
,
322 ErrorClass err_class
, const char *fmt
, ...)
326 * Special error destination to abort on error.
327 * See error_setg() and error_propagate() for details.
329 extern Error
*error_abort
;
332 * Special error destination to exit(1) on error.
333 * See error_setg() and error_propagate() for details.
335 extern Error
*error_fatal
;