| Subject: | No way to analyze errors during sending of report |
Today I tried out cpanm-reporter for the first time. I installed it with 'cpanm' -- so naturally the first report I attempted to send was for App-cpanm-reporter itself. When I did so, I got a message saying that the sending of the report for one distro had at first failed:
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$ cpanm-reporter
sending: (http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RJ/RJBS/Data-UUID-1.221.tar.gz, RJBS, Data-UUID-1.221, PASS)
Error while sending this report, continuing with the next one...
sending: (http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RJ/RJBS/Data-GUID-0.049.tar.gz, RJBS, Data-GUID-0.049, PASS)
sending: (http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DA/DAGOLDEN/IO-Prompt-Tiny-0.003.tar.gz, DAGOLDEN, IO-Prompt-Tiny-0.003, PASS)
...
sending: (http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GA/GARU/CPAN-Testers-Common-Client-0.13.tar.gz, GARU, CPAN-Testers-Common-Client-0.13, PASS)
sending: (http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GA/GARU/App-cpanminus-reporter-0.17.tar.gz, GARU, App-cpanminus-reporter-0.17, PASS)
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So it appears that the module corrected the error. But, I wondered, what if it had not corrected the error; how would I have found out what the error was?
I dug into the code and found this in make_report():
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454 try {
455 $reporter->send() || die $reporter->errstr();
456 }
457 catch {
458 print "Error while sending this report, continuing with the next one...\n" unless $self->quiet;
459 print "DEBUG: @_" if $self->verbose;
460 } finally{
461 $client->record_history unless $self->skip_history;
462 };
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So it appears that I would have gotten debugging output only if I had thought to use '--verbose' on the command-line in the first place! A more experienced user might have remembered to do that, but not a first-timer. So I don't know what the error actually was.
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan