Issue #1694
closed
pulp-admin does not show error messages unless the user specifies the -v flag
Description
The -v flag was supposed to enable debug messaging, but when it was implemented it also caused pulp-admin error messages (such as tracebacks) to be hidden from the user. This is not useful, particular when debugging intermittent problems. Any unhandled Exceptions should print the error message and traceback to the user because that is a crash bug and we need to fix it. The current behavior is not helpful and can make debugging intermittent problems much more difficult than they already are:
$ pulp-admin docker repo search image --repo-id 3742cb9b-ff6f-4f88-a271-f83ae8c88e52 --fields unit_id
An unexpected error has occurred. More information may be found using the -v
flag.
This output should happen without the -v:
$ pulp-admin -v docker repo search image --repo-id 3742cb9b-ff6f-4f88-a271-f83ae8c88e52 --fields unit_id
2016-02-18 18:43:54,947 - ERROR - Client-side exception occurred
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/vagrant/devel/pulp/client_lib/pulp/client/extensions/core.py", line 474, in run
exit_code = Cli.run(self, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/okaara/cli.py", line 974, in run
exit_code = command_or_section.execute(self.prompt, remaining_args)
File "/home/vagrant/devel/pulp/client_lib/pulp/client/extensions/extensions.py", line 210, in execute
return self.method(*arg_list, **clean_kwargs)
File "/home/vagrant/devel/pulp_docker/extensions_admin/pulp_docker/extensions/admin/images.py", line 106, in run
image_id = image[u'metadata'][u'image_id']
KeyError: u'image_id'
An unexpected error has occurred. More information may be found using the -v
flag.
Additionally, it is silly that pulp-admin tells users to use the -v flag when they did use the -v flag.
The example problems I've supplied are from another bug I've filed, see #1693 if you are interested in that.
Updated by amacdona@redhat.com about 8 years ago
"Additionally, it is silly that pulp-admin tells users to use the -v flag when they did use the -v flag."
This issue is already open: https://pulp.plan.io/issues/752
You tempt me to relate the two :)
Updated by rbarlow about 8 years ago
Pulp wrote:
You tempt me to relate the two :)
lol
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Randy Barlow
irc: bowlofeggs
Updated by ipanova@redhat.com about 8 years ago
I think the -vv enables debug messaging. At least we state so:
pulp-admin --help
-v enables verbose output; use twice for increased
verbosity with debug information
Updated by mhrivnak about 8 years ago
- Triaged changed from No to Yes
Consider dumping the error details out to a text file rather than on screen.
Updated by bmbouter about 8 years ago
Why don't we send pulp-admin error messages to stderr without any extra -v or -vv flags specified?
Updated by rbarlow about 8 years ago
Pulp wrote:
Consider dumping the error details out to a text file rather than on screen.
We have these flags because we specifically wanted to get away from that behavior. Also, it is much easier for users to report a crash to us if we give them all the info we need to help them right away. Remember, this is a crash situation not a minor bug. It's also annoying to me as a developer that I have to go look in a different place when a crash happens.
Updated by rbarlow about 8 years ago
bmbouter wrote:
Why don't we send pulp-admin error messages to stderr without any extra -v or -vv flags specified?
+1 to stderr. Just to add a point of clarification, we still want/need to -v flag for debug info outside of crashes.
Updated by bmbouter about 5 years ago
- Status changed from NEW to CLOSED - WONTFIX
Updated by bmbouter about 5 years ago
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