unicorn/qemu/include/qapi/error.h
Markus Armbruster e4976f4597
error: Improve documentation
While there, tighten error_append_hint()'s assertion.

Backports commit f4d0064afcff4c38b379800674938cde8f069dcd from qemu
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/*
* QEMU Error Objects
*
* Copyright IBM, Corp. 2011
* Copyright (C) 2011-2015 Red Hat, Inc.
*
* Authors:
* Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
* Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
*
* This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, version 2. See
* the COPYING.LIB file in the top-level directory.
*/
/*
* Error reporting system loosely patterned after Glib's GError.
*
* Create an error:
* error_setg(&err, "situation normal, all fouled up");
*
* Create an error and add additional explanation:
* error_setg(&err, "invalid quark");
* error_append_hint(&err, "Valid quarks are up, down, strange, "
* "charm, top, bottom.\n");
*
* Do *not* contract this to
* error_setg(&err, "invalid quark\n"
* "Valid quarks are up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom.");
*
*
* Report an error to stderr:
* error_report_err(err);
* This frees the error object.
*
* Report an error somewhere else:
* const char *msg = error_get_pretty(err);
* do with msg what needs to be done...
* error_free(err);
* Note that this loses hints added with error_append_hint().
*
* Handle an error without reporting it (just for completeness):
* error_free(err);
*
* Pass an existing error to the caller:
* error_propagate(errp, err);
* where Error **errp is a parameter, by convention the last one.
*
* Create a new error and pass it to the caller:
* error_setg(errp, "situation normal, all fouled up");
*
* Call a function and receive an error from it:
* Error *err = NULL;
* foo(arg, &err);
* if (err) {
* handle the error...
* }
*
* Call a function ignoring errors:
* foo(arg, NULL);
*
* Call a function aborting on errors:
* foo(arg, &error_abort);
*
* Receive an error and pass it on to the caller:
* Error *err = NULL;
* foo(arg, &err);
* if (err) {
* handle the error...
* error_propagate(errp, err);
* }
* where Error **errp is a parameter, by convention the last one.
*
* Do *not* "optimize" this to
* foo(arg, errp);
* if (*errp) { // WRONG!
* handle the error...
* }
* because errp may be NULL!
*
* But when all you do with the error is pass it on, please use
* foo(arg, errp);
* for readability.
*
* Receive and accumulate multiple errors (first one wins):
* Error *err = NULL, *local_err = NULL;
* foo(arg, &err);
* bar(arg, &local_err);
* error_propagate(&err, local_err);
* if (err) {
* handle the error...
* }
*
* Do *not* "optimize" this to
* foo(arg, &err);
* bar(arg, &err); // WRONG!
* if (err) {
* handle the error...
* }
* because this may pass a non-null err to bar().
*/
#ifndef ERROR_H
#define ERROR_H
#include "qemu/compiler.h"
#include "qapi-types.h"
#include "unicorn/platform.h"
/**
* Opaque error object.
*/
typedef struct Error Error;
/**
* Get @err's human-readable error message.
*/
const char *error_get_pretty(Error *err);
/*
* Get @err's error class.
* Note: use of error classes other than ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR is
* strongly discouraged.
*/
ErrorClass error_get_class(const Error *err);
/**
* Set an indirect pointer to an error given a ErrorClass value and a
* printf-style human message, followed by a strerror() string if
* @os_error is not zero.
*/
void error_set_errno(Error **errp, int os_error, ErrorClass err_class,
const char *fmt, ...) GCC_FMT_ATTR(4, 5);
/*
* Create a new error object and assign it to *@errp.
* If @errp is NULL, the error is ignored. Don't bother creating one
* then.
* If @errp is &error_abort, print a suitable message and abort().
* If @errp is anything else, *@errp must be NULL.
* The new error's class is ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR, and its
* human-readable error message is made from printf-style @fmt, ...
* The resulting message should be a single phrase, with no newline or
* trailing punctuation.
*/
#define error_setg(errp, fmt, ...) \
error_setg_internal((errp), __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__, \
(fmt), ## __VA_ARGS__)
void error_setg_internal(Error **errp,
const char *src, int line, const char *func,
const char *fmt, ...)
GCC_FMT_ATTR(5, 6);
/*
* Just like error_setg(), with @os_error info added to the message.
* If @os_error is non-zero, ": " + strerror(os_error) is appended to
* the human-readable error message.
*/
#define error_setg_errno(errp, os_error, fmt, ...) \
error_setg_errno_internal((errp), __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__, \
(os_error), (fmt), ## __VA_ARGS__)
void error_setg_errno_internal(Error **errp,
const char *fname, int line, const char *func,
int os_error, const char *fmt, ...)
GCC_FMT_ATTR(6, 7);
/*
* Propagate error object (if any) from @local_err to @dst_errp.
* If @local_err is NULL, do nothing (because there's nothing to
* propagate).
* Else, if @dst_errp is NULL, errors are being ignored. Free the
* error object.
* Else, if @dst_errp is &error_abort, print a suitable message and
* abort().
* Else, if @dst_errp already contains an error, ignore this one: free
* the error object.
* Else, move the error object from @local_err to *@dst_errp.
* On return, @local_err is invalid.
*/
void error_propagate(Error **dst_errp, Error *local_err);
/**
* Convenience function to report open() failure.
*/
#define error_setg_file_open(errp, os_errno, filename) \
error_setg_file_open_internal((errp), __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__, \
(os_errno), (filename))
void error_setg_file_open_internal(Error **errp,
const char *src, int line, const char *func,
int os_errno, const char *filename);
/**
* Return an exact copy of @err.
*/
Error *error_copy(const Error *err);
/**
* Free @err.
* @err may be NULL.
*/
void error_free(Error *err);
/*
* Just like error_setg(), except you get to specify the error class.
* Note: use of error classes other than ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR is
* strongly discouraged.
*/
#define error_set(errp, err_class, fmt, ...) \
error_set_internal((errp), __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__, \
(err_class), (fmt), ## __VA_ARGS__)
void error_set_internal(Error **errp,
const char *src, int line, const char *func,
ErrorClass err_class, const char *fmt, ...)
GCC_FMT_ATTR(6, 7);
/*
* Pass to error_setg() & friends to abort() on error.
*/
extern Error *error_abort;
#endif