[STR-786] Make error messages more specific (omnibus issue)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Reopened
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Nightly Build
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: Core
• Environment: Operating System: other; Platform: Other
• Bugzilla Id: 11733
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: David M. Karr
• Created: 16/Aug/02 01:08
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:28

Description

When I'm trying to track through the Struts source code to find out where an
error message is being emitted, after I find the display string in the
properties files, I then have to search for the given key in the source code.
It would be very convenient if the key associated with that display string was
specific enough to be reasonably certain that it wouldn't occur hundreds of
times in unrelated places. Unfortunately, for several (most?) of these error
keys, that is not the case. A perfect example: "formBean". That's the error
code for "Error creating form bean of class

{0}

". From the ones I see near
"formBean" in the ActionResources.properties file, there are many keys that are
not specific at all.

Issue Links

• depends upon: STR-423 Struts fails silently in too many places
• depends upon: STR-1638 MalformedURLException: You must specify exactly one of "forward", "href", or "page"
• depends upon: STR-1730 [taglib] "Cannot find bean * in scope null" ==> increase error specificness
• depends upon: STR-1809 Enhance log error message for when the Action cannot instantiate
• depends upon: STR-1819 Warn if a form is not declared but used by an action
• depends upon: STR-2020 Improve error detail when form validation fails from absent ActionServlet
• depends upon: STR-2153 Report the bean and property name when iteration fails
• depends upon: STR-2173 Better error message for "Exception thrown by getter for property"
• depends upon: STR-2437 Standardize exception rethrows to contain root cause
• depends upon: STR-2611 Cite the form name in validation exception message
• depends upon: STR-3094 Emit error to log when input forward does not exist
• depends upon: STR-1808 Warn if an Action path string appears twice in configuration