[VALIDATOR-181] [validator] More informative Exception message

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Nightly Builds

Environment

Operating System: All
Platform: All

• Bugzilla Id: 27471
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Adam Hardy
• Created: 05/Mar/04 18:52
• Updated: 12/Nov/07 19:25
• Resolved: 12/Nov/07 19:25

Description

I'm looking at the source code of
/usr/java/jakarta-commons/validator/src/share/org/apache/commons/validator/ValidatorAction.java
because I couldn't work out what was wrong from the Exception I just got (OK,
maybe I'm being a bit slow too...)

This is the Exception msg:

org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorException:
org.apache.struts.validator.FieldChecks.validateRequired(java.lang.Object,
org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorAction,
org.apache.commons.validator.Field, org.apache.struts.action.ActionErrors,
javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest)

and of course the crucial information that is missing: NoSuchMethodException

This is the code at line 629:

catch (NoSuchMethodException e)

{ throw new ValidatorException(e.getMessage()); }

but what it should say, ideally is:

catch (NoSuchMethodException e)

{ throw new ValidatorException(e); }

And then I would know immediately what it was complaining about, since my powers
of deduction are not as great as Sherlock Holmes