1 files changed, 234 insertions, 29 deletions

diff --git a/apt-pkg/contrib/error.h b/apt-pkg/contrib/error.h
index 8d5ec05ea..73735162d 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/contrib/error.h
+++ b/apt-pkg/contrib/error.h
@@ -42,43 +42,248 @@
 
 #include <apt-pkg/macros.h>
 
+#include <iostream>
+#include <list>
 #include <string>
 
-class GlobalError
+#include <stdarg.h>
+
+class GlobalError							/*{{{*/
 {
-   struct Item
-   {
-      std::string Text;
-      bool Error;
-      Item *Next;
-   };
-   
-   Item *List;
-   bool PendingFlag;
-   void Insert(Item *I);
-   
-   public:
+public:									/*{{{*/
+	/** \brief a message can have one of following severity */
+	enum MsgType {
+		/** \brief Message will be printed instantly as it is likely that
+			this error will lead to a complete crash */
+		FATAL = 40,
+		/** \brief An error does hinder the correct execution and should be corrected */
+		ERROR = 30,
+		/** \brief indicates problem that can lead to errors later on */
+		WARNING = 20,
+		/** \brief deprecation warnings, old fallback behavior, … */
+		NOTICE = 10,
+		/** \brief for developers only in areas it is hard to print something directly */
+		DEBUG = 0
+	};
 
-   // Call to generate an error from a library call.
-   bool Errno(const char *Function,const char *Description,...) __like_printf(3) __cold;
-   bool WarningE(const char *Function,const char *Description,...) __like_printf(3) __cold;
+	/** \brief add a fatal error message with errno to the list
+	 *
+	 *  \param Function name of the function generating the error
+	 *  \param Description format string for the error message
+	 *
+	 *  \return \b false
+	 */
+	bool FatalE(const char *Function,const char *Description,...) __like_printf(3) __cold;
 
-   /* A warning should be considered less severe than an error, and may be
-      ignored by the client. */
-   bool Error(const char *Description,...) __like_printf(2) __cold;
-   bool Warning(const char *Description,...) __like_printf(2) __cold;
+	/** \brief add an Error message with errno to the list
+	 *
+	 *  \param Function name of the function generating the error
+	 *  \param Description format string for the error message
+	 *
+	 *  \return \b false
+	 */
+	bool Errno(const char *Function,const char *Description,...) __like_printf(3) __cold;
 
-   // Simple accessors
-   inline bool PendingError() {return PendingFlag;};
-   inline bool empty() {return List == 0;};
-   bool PopMessage(std::string &Text);
-   void Discard();
+	/** \brief add a warning message with errno to the list
+	 *
+	 *  A warning should be considered less severe than an error and
+	 *  may be ignored by the client.
+	 *
+	 *  \param Function Name of the function generates the warning.
+	 *  \param Description Format string for the warning message.
+	 *
+	 *  \return \b false
+	 */
+	bool WarningE(const char *Function,const char *Description,...) __like_printf(3) __cold;
 
-   // Usefull routine to dump to cerr
-   void DumpErrors();
-   
-   GlobalError();
+	/** \brief add a notice message with errno to the list
+	 *
+	 *  \param Function name of the function generating the error
+	 *  \param Description format string for the error message
+	 *
+	 *  \return \b false
+	 */
+	bool NoticeE(const char *Function,const char *Description,...) __like_printf(3) __cold;
+
+	/** \brief add a debug message with errno to the list
+	 *
+	 *  \param Function name of the function generating the error
+	 *  \param Description format string for the error message
+	 *
+	 *  \return \b false
+	 */
+	bool DebugE(const char *Function,const char *Description,...) __like_printf(3) __cold;
+
+	/** \brief add an fatal error message to the list
+	 *
+	 *  Most of the stuff we consider as "error" is also "fatal" for
+	 *  the user as the application will not have the expected result,
+	 *  but a fatal message here means that it gets printed directly
+	 *  to stderr in addiction to adding it to the list as the error
+	 *  leads sometimes to crashes and a maybe duplicated message
+	 *  is better than "Segfault" as the only displayed text
+	 *
+	 *  \param Description Format string for the fatal error message.
+	 *
+	 *  \return \b false
+	 */
+	bool Fatal(const char *Description,...) __like_printf(2) __cold;
+
+	/** \brief add an Error message to the list
+	 *
+	 *  \param Description Format string for the error message.
+	 *
+	 *  \return \b false
+	 */
+	bool Error(const char *Description,...) __like_printf(2) __cold;
+
+	/** \brief add a warning message to the list
+	 *
+	 *  A warning should be considered less severe than an error and
+	 *  may be ignored by the client.
+	 *
+	 *  \param Description Format string for the message
+	 *
+	 *  \return \b false
+	 */
+	bool Warning(const char *Description,...) __like_printf(2) __cold;
+
+	/** \brief add a notice message to the list
+	 *
+	 *  A notice should be considered less severe than an error or a
+	 *  warning and can be ignored by the client without further problems
+	 *  for some times, but he should consider fixing the problem.
+	 *  This error type can be used for e.g. deprecation warnings of options.
+	 *
+	 *  \param Description Format string for the message
+	 *
+	 *  \return \b false
+	 */
+	bool Notice(const char *Description,...) __like_printf(2) __cold;
+
+	/** \brief add a debug message to the list
+	 *
+	 *  \param Description Format string for the message
+	 *
+	 *  \return \b false
+	 */
+	bool Debug(const char *Description,...) __like_printf(2) __cold;
+
+	/** \brief is an error in the list?
+	 *
+	 *  \return \b true if an error is included in the list, \b false otherwise
+	 */
+	inline bool PendingError() const {return PendingFlag;};
+
+	/** \brief is the list empty?
+	 *
+	 *  The default checks if the list is empty or contains only notices,
+	 *  if you want to check if also no notices happend set the parameter
+	 *  flag to \b false.
+	 *
+	 *  \param WithoutNotice does notices count, default is \b true, so no
+	 *
+	 *  \return \b true if an the list is empty, \b false otherwise
+	 */
+	bool empty(MsgType const &trashhold = WARNING) const;
+
+	/** \brief returns and removes the first (or last) message in the list
+	 *
+	 *  \param[out] Text message of the first/last item
+	 *
+	 *  \return \b true if the message was an error, \b false otherwise
+	 */
+	bool PopMessage(std::string &Text);
+
+	/** \brief clears the list of messages */
+	void Discard();
+
+	/** \brief outputs the list of messages to the given stream
+	 *
+	 *  Note that all messages are discarded, also the notices
+	 *  displayed or not.
+	 *
+	 *  \param[out] out output stream to write the messages in
+	 *  \param WithoutNotice output notices or not
+	 */
+	void DumpErrors(std::ostream &out, MsgType const &trashhold = WARNING,
+			bool const &mergeStack = true);
+
+	/** \brief dumps the list of messages to std::cerr
+	 *
+	 *  Note that all messages are discarded, also the notices
+	 *  displayed or not.
+	 *
+	 *  \param WithoutNotice print notices or not
+	 */
+	void inline DumpErrors(MsgType const &trashhold = WARNING) {
+		DumpErrors(std::cerr, trashhold);
+	}
+
+	/** \brief put the current Messages into the stack
+	 *
+	 *  All "old" messages will be pushed into a stack to
+	 *  them later back, but for now the Message query will be
+	 *  empty and performs as no messages were present before.
+	 *
+	 * The stack can be as deep as you want - all stack operations
+	 * will only operate on the last element in the stack.
+	 */
+	void PushToStack();
+
+	/** \brief throw away all current messages */
+	void RevertToStack();
+
+	/** \brief merge current and stack together */
+	void MergeWithStack();
+
+	/** \brief return the deep of the stack */
+	size_t StackCount() const {
+		return Stacks.size();
+	}
+
+	GlobalError();
+									/*}}}*/
+private:								/*{{{*/
+	struct Item {
+		std::string Text;
+		MsgType Type;
+
+		Item(char const *Text, MsgType const &Type) :
+			Text(Text), Type(Type) {};
+
+		friend std::ostream& operator<< (std::ostream &out, Item i) {
+			switch(i.Type) {
+			case FATAL:
+			case ERROR: out << "E"; break;
+			case WARNING: out << "W"; break;
+			case NOTICE: out << "N"; break;
+			case DEBUG: out << "D"; break;
+			}
+			return out << ": " << i.Text;
+		}
+	};
+
+	std::list<Item> Messages;
+	bool PendingFlag;
+
+	struct MsgStack {
+		std::list<Item> const Messages;
+		bool const PendingFlag;
+
+		MsgStack(std::list<Item> const &Messages, bool const &Pending) :
+			 Messages(Messages), PendingFlag(Pending) {};
+	};
+
+	std::list<MsgStack> Stacks;
+
+	bool InsertErrno(MsgType type, const char* Function,
+			 const char* Description, va_list const &args);
+	bool Insert(MsgType type, const char* Description,
+			 va_list const &args);
+									/*}}}*/
 };
+									/*}}}*/
 
 // The 'extra-ansi' syntax is used to help with collisions. 
 GlobalError *_GetErrorObj();