[PATCH 2/2] wayland-server: Improve error messages for bad globals

Kristian Høgsberg hoegsberg at gmail.com
Tue Nov 19 13:26:49 PST 2013


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 09:44:37PM -0500, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> A bug in Weston's toytoolkit gave me an hour of debugging headaches.
> Improve the error messages that we send if a client requests an invalid
> global, either by name or by version.

That's a good improvement, applied.

Kristian

> ---
>  src/wayland-server.c | 10 +++++++---
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/wayland-server.c b/src/wayland-server.c
> index d7c58b9..26fb84e 100644
> --- a/src/wayland-server.c
> +++ b/src/wayland-server.c
> @@ -620,11 +620,15 @@ registry_bind(struct wl_client *client,
>  		if (global->name == name)
>  			break;
>  
> -	if (&global->link == &display->global_list ||
> -	    global->version < version)
> +	if (&global->link == &display->global_list)
>  		wl_resource_post_error(resource,
>  				       WL_DISPLAY_ERROR_INVALID_OBJECT,
> -				       "invalid global %d", name);
> +				       "invalid global %s (%d)", interface, name);
> +	else if (global->version < version)
> +		wl_resource_post_error(resource,
> +				       WL_DISPLAY_ERROR_INVALID_OBJECT,
> +				       "invalid version for global %s (%d): have %d, wanted %d",
> +				       interface, name, global->version, version);
>  	else
>  		global->bind(client, global->data, version, id);
>  }
> -- 
> 1.8.4.2
> 
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