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

Mon Apr 22 08:33:57 UTC 2013

On 20 April 2013 19:20, Vitor Baptista <vitor at vitorbaptista.com> wrote:

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

https://github.com/okfn/ckan/issues/789

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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