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The rule generating the HTML docs passing the --html flag to xsltproc. This makes it use the legacy HTML parser, which either ignores or tries to fix all sorts of broken XML tags. There's no reason why we should be writing broken XML in the first place, so removing --html and adding the XHTML doctype to all files forces us to create good XML. This adds the XHTML doc type and fixes many, many XML tag problems it exposes. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
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<h1 >Handling of errors</h1>
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<p>The main goals of libvirt when it comes to error handling are:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>provide as much detail as possible</li>
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<li>provide the information as soon as possible</li>
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<li>dont force the library user into one style of error handling</li>
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</ul>
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<p>As result the library provide both synchronous, callback based and
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asynchronous error reporting. When an error happens in the library code the
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error is logged, allowing to retrieve it later and if the user registered an
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error callback it will be called synchronously. Once the call to libvirt ends
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the error can be detected by the return value and the full information for
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the last logged error can be retrieved.</p>
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<p>To avoid as much as possible troubles with a global variable in a
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multithreaded environment, libvirt will associate when possible the errors to
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the current connection they are related to, that way the error is stored in a
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dynamic structure which can be made thread specific. Error callback can be
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set specifically to a connection with</p>
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<p>So error handling in the code is the following:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>if the error can be associated to a connection for example when failing
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to look up a domain
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<ol><li>if there is a callback associated to the connection set with <a href="html/libvirt-virterror.html#virConnSetErrorFunc">virConnSetErrorFunc</a>,
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call it with the error information</li><li>otherwise if there is a global callback set with <a href="html/libvirt-virterror.html#virSetErrorFunc">virSetErrorFunc</a>,
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call it with the error information</li><li>otherwise call <a href="html/libvirt-virterror.html#virDefaultErrorFunc">virDefaultErrorFunc</a>
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which is the default error function of the library issuing the error
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on stderr</li><li>save the error in the connection for later retrieval with <a href="html/libvirt-virterror.html#virConnGetLastError">virConnGetLastError</a></li></ol></li>
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<li>otherwise like when failing to create an hypervisor connection:
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<ol><li>if there is a global callback set with <a href="html/libvirt-virterror.html#virSetErrorFunc">virSetErrorFunc</a>,
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call it with the error information</li><li>otherwise call <a href="html/libvirt-virterror.html#virDefaultErrorFunc">virDefaultErrorFunc</a>
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which is the default error function of the library issuing the error
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on stderr</li><li>save the error in the connection for later retrieval with <a href="html/libvirt-virterror.html#virGetLastError">virGetLastError</a></li></ol></li>
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</ol>
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<p>In all cases the error information is provided as a <a href="html/libvirt-virterror.html#virErrorPtr">virErrorPtr</a> pointer to
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read-only structure <a href="html/libvirt-virterror.html#virError">virError</a> containing the
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following fields:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>code: an error number from the <a href="html/libvirt-virterror.html#virErrorNumber">virErrorNumber</a>
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enum</li>
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<li>domain: an enum indicating which part of libvirt raised the error see
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<a href="html/libvirt-virterror.html#virErrorDomain">virErrorDomain</a></li>
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<li>level: the error level, usually VIR_ERR_ERROR, though there is room for
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warnings like VIR_ERR_WARNING</li>
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<li>message: the full human-readable formatted string of the error</li>
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<li>conn: if available a pointer to the <a href="html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virConnectPtr">virConnectPtr</a>
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connection to the hypervisor where this happened</li>
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<li>dom: if available a pointer to the <a href="html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virDomainPtr">virDomainPtr</a> domain
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targeted in the operation</li>
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</ul>
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<p>and then extra raw information about the error which may be initialized
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to 0 or NULL if unused</p>
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<ul>
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<li>str1, str2, str3: string information, usually str1 is the error
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message format</li>
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<li>int1, int2: integer information</li>
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</ul>
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<p>So usually, setting up specific error handling with libvirt consist of
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registering a handler with <a href="html/libvirt-virterror.html#virSetErrorFunc">virSetErrorFunc</a> or
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with <a href="html/libvirt-virterror.html#virConnSetErrorFunc">virConnSetErrorFunc</a>,
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check the value of the code value, take appropriate action, if needed let
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libvirt print the error on stderr by calling <a href="html/libvirt-virterror.html#virDefaultErrorFunc">virDefaultErrorFunc</a>.
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For asynchronous error handing, set such a function doing nothing to avoid
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the error being reported on stderr, and call virConnGetLastError or
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virGetLastError when an API call returned an error value. It can be a good
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idea to use <a href="html/libvirt-virterror.html#virResetLastError">virResetError</a> or <a href="html/libvirt-virterror.html#virConnResetLastError">virConnResetLastError</a>
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once an error has been processed fully.</p>
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<p>At the python level, there only a global reporting callback function at
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this point, see the error.py example about it:</p>
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<pre>def handler(ctxt, err):
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global errno
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#print "handler(%s, %s)" % (ctxt, err)
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errno = err
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libvirt.registerErrorHandler(handler, 'context') </pre>
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<p>the second argument to the registerErrorHandler function is passed as the
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first argument of the callback like in the C version. The error is a tuple
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containing the same field as a virError in C, but cast to Python.</p>
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</body>
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</html>
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