[BEEHIVE-928] additional logging requested for interceptor instantiation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.0
• Component/s: Controls
• Environment: Beehive dist built from SVN r280592
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jeremiah Johnson
• Created: 15/Sep/05 02:30
• Updated: 15/Sep/05 05:07

Description

After going through the Wiki page about interceptors (http://wiki.apache.org/beehive/Controls/AnnotationBasedFeatures) I created an interceptor but wasn't getting the results I expected. When the interceptor is instantiated, a failure to find the interceptor class is currently silently ignored; please consider logging the failure.

Proposed patch (note that I don't really like using SEP - just don't see any other logging used in the Controls Runtime):
— trunk/controls/src/runtime/org/apache/beehive/controls/runtime/bean/ControlBean.java
@@ -932,6 +933,10 @@
try
{
i = (Interceptor) getControlService( getControlBeanContext().getClassLoader().loadClass( n ), null );
+ if( i == null )

{ + System.err.println( "interceptor (" + n + + ") not found in current classpath" ); + }

}
catch ( Exception e )

{ @@ -939,7 +944,7 @@ // isn't present on this system at runtime (ClassNotFoundException), or if the container of the // control didn't registers the service. - // TODO log a message here to that effect, but just swallow the exception for now. + System.err.println( "failed to instantiate interceptor: " + e ); }

finally
{
—