Re: [jenkins-ci PATCH] lcitool: Raise Error instead of Exception

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On Mon, 2019-03-11 at 17:55 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 06:48:11PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > This results in
> > 
> >   $ ./lcitool dockerfile dockerfile -x foo libvirt-debian-9 libvirt
> >   FROM debian:9
> >   ./lcitool: Unsupported architecture ppc64el
> > 
> > being printed on error, instead of the much nastier
> > 
> >   $ ./lcitool dockerfile dockerfile -x foo libvirt-debian-9 libvirt
> >   FROM debian:9
> >   Traceback (most recent call last):
> >     File "./lcitool", line 704, in <module>
> >       Application().run()
> >     File "./lcitool", line 699, in run
> >       args.func(args)
> >     File "./lcitool", line 643, in _action_dockerfile
> >       deb_arch = Util.native_arch_to_deb_arch(args.cross_arch)
> >     File "./lcitool", line 126, in native_arch_to_deb_arch
> >       raise Exception("Unsupported architecture {}".format(native_arch))
> >   Exception: Unsupported architecture foo
> 
> I'm curious why the "Error" class exists at all ? It doesn't seem
> to add anything that the normal "Exception" class can't do, and
> leads to bugs like the one here.

I seem to understand you're not supposed to use Exception directly,
but rather define your own exception types:

  https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/errors.html#user-defined-exceptions

I remember reading more about this, but I can't find the source
right now.

-- 
Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization

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