Re: msi vs dbLoadTemplate

[Marty Kraimer <mrk@aps.anl.gov>]

Hunt Steven wrote:
> Ah, thinking about it doesn't dbLoadTemplate do the same (write to stdout,
> and errors to stderr), I have this in a tcl catch { exec ...} call which
> detects anything being written to stdout, so perhaps the problem is that the
> error is not being detected by msi ???  as a test I added a ";" to a
> template file (one of our most common errors).  dbLoadTemplate seems to
> catch this msi not.


msi is more generic than dbLoadTemplates and thus doesn't report the same errors 
that dbLoadTemplate reported.

I will also suggest is that what is required is something that checks that 
dbLoadDatabase will work on the file created by msi.

base has a test routine that could be used. It is located at 
<base>/src/dbStatic/dbReadTest.c. It calls dbLoadDatabase for selected files and 
reports errors if dbLoadDatabase fails and reports nothing if dbLoadDatabase 
succeeds.

Examples: This should work with any version of base

cd <base>/bin/<arch>

Then create two files

test.db
record(ai,"test")
{
}

test1.db
record(ai,"test")
{
    field(SCAN,"1 second")
}
record(ai,"test1")
{
    field(JUNK,"xxxx")
}



Then the following happens

mercury% dbReadTest
usage: dbReadTest -Idir -Smacsub file.dbd file.db
mercury%

This is just to show what dbReadTest accepts as input.

mercury% dbReadTest -I ../../dbd ../../dbd/base.dbd ./test.db
mercury%

Since test.db was a valid file dbReadTest reported nothing.

mercury% dbReadTest -I ../../dbd ../../dbd/base.dbd ./test1.db
Error filename="../dbLexRoutines.c" line number=899
Field Not Found
  Last token ")"
input line:     field(JUNK,"xxxx")
   in: file ./test1.db line 7

db_parse returned -1
For input file ./test1.dbfilename="../dbReadTest.c" line number=77
from dbReadDatabase
mercury%



Thus it reported an error.

I suspect you will want to start with dbReadTest and produce something more 
compatible with your requirement.

Marty