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[Gwenaelle Bouteille <address@concealed>]

Edward Rynes wrote:

> When a user tries to create a new list under Sympa 5.0.1 they fill  
> out their list creation form and the information is passed from  
> wwsympa.fcgi to admin::create_list_old.  Create_list_old does some  
> checking to see if the information is correct and if not it returns  
> undef.  This means that the Web server can only report that the  
> creation failed but not WHY it failed.  In the case of an illegal  
> character in the listname this can be very frustrating for a user  
> that doesn't know what the problem is.
>
> There needs to be a way to pass error-codes back to wwsympa from the  
> list creation code!  Is anyone working on this or should I implement  
> something myself?

Hello,

I am ending to work on error reports but I won't have any time more to 
do something about what you said.
My work is on cvs "sympa-topics" branch. It contains a new module 
"report.pm" where there are every functions to
notify users about there requests to sympa. I am finishing the internal 
documentation this afternoon.

I can propose you a way to report errors about admin::create_list_old :
Actually this function returns a ref(HASH) if '"ok" and returns "undef" 
else. I propose you to return a ref(HASH) every time :
If it failed the function must return
   - the type of the error : 'intern' or 'user' or 'auth'
   - the key in the template web_tt2/error.tt2
in order to be used by the function "report::reject_report_web("error 
type","key in tpl", ...)" that replaces "error_message"

This function cannot be called in the admin module as it can be used by 
different interface.

Bye.