Re: [Configobj-develop] Getting those nice validation error messages out

[Fuzzyman <fuz...@vo...>]

Matthew Brett wrote:

>No problem, thanks very much for letting me know...
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Hello Matthew,

I don't think my previous answer addressed all the issues you were
asking about.

I realise that you also want to include in your list *why* the test
failed. Again the question is "in what form do you want these error
messages" ?

Obviously the information you have to go off is the original test (or if
the entry is just plain missing) - if you had a flattened list of
failures (of the sort I discussed) you could have each entry as a tuple :

    (entry_name, original_test)

You would still have to produce your own error messages from these of
course - would it be useful if I showed you a (recursive) function to
produce a list like this ?

All the best,

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml


>On 12/3/05, Fuzzyman <fuz...@vo...> wrote:
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>>Hello Matthew,
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>>I'm very short of time - I'll do you a proper reply on Monday, sorry
>>about that.
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>>Michael
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>>Matthew Brett wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>I am very sorry if I missed something simple, but is there an easy way
>>>to get a list of informative validation error messages from the
>>>ConfigObj.validate interface?
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>>>I have run:
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>>>res = config_obj.validate(vtor)
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>>>and have a nested list of boolean values - but I want to be able to
>>>print out a list of items that failed validation and why.  I am just
>>>thinking about reiterating through the option dictionary, running the
>>>validation by hand (.check) for each False in the 'res' dictionary,
>>>but this seems very cludgy - is there a better way?
>>>
>>>Thanks a lot,
>>>
>>>Matthew
>>>
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