| Subject: | Add quotes in error messages where a named thing wasn't found |
| Date: | Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:14:51 +0000 |
| To: | "bug-DBIx-Class [...] rt.cpan.org" <bug-DBIx-Class [...] rt.cpan.org> |
| From: | Ben Hutton <bh7 [...] sanger.ac.uk> |
I just spent half an hour trying to understand my error message. Turns out I was trying to get column “patient_id,”, but I didn’t see the additional comma. Granted it was totally my mistake.
On sharing with my colleagues, one mentioned that he had the same issue but with a space, and with relationship names also.
It seems reasonable and helpful to encapsulate the name of things in errors, in quotes, making it much easier to see you’ve made a mistake, and DBIx Class hasn’t suddenly decided a column you know is there, to not be found.
Cheers
Ben
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