[ckan-dev] DEVS PLEASE READ Re: Ckan Exceptions and translation

Sat Apr 20 18:20:51 UTC 2013

Hi Toby,

Have you created an issue for this? It should be quite easy to grep and
remove all localized exception messages...

Cheers,
Vítor Baptista.

2013/4/18 Toby Dacre <toby.okfn at gmail.com>

> We agreed today that all Exceptions must be in English and _not_
> translated.
>
> this is because they are part of the code
> we all need to be able to read stack traces
> translators have enough to translate already
>
> Do not accept any pull requests that include them
> We also need to remove any we see in the code base
>
> If you have added any please remove them asap
>
> I will update the coding standards as soon as I can
>
> The API output should also be English only too.
>
> Thanks
>
> Toby
> On 17 April 2013 11:14, Adrià Mercader <adria.mercader at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm generally +1 on not translating any exceptions, but as you say we
>> then need to make sure that they are captured by the controllers or
>> whatever before showing them on the frontend.
>>
>>
>> Adrià
>>
>> On 16 April 2013 15:17, Toby Dacre <toby.okfn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I see code like this
>> >     `raise Exception(_('some error'))`
>> >
>> > I think these should be
>> >     `raise Exception('some error')`
>> >
>> > In my view Exceptions are for developers and log files etc so we should
>> not
>> > be pushing the Exception message to the user.  By using _ our error logs
>> > will be in the language of the user who had the error not in English
>> like
>> > the code base.  This make support much more difficult.
>> >
>> > This is a new thing that has started happening.  Can anyone justify this
>> > change?  Can we stop doing it?
>> >
>> > Toby
>> >
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