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Bug 70599

Summary:	Rule error message is obscure
Product:	contrib	Reporter:	_ tball <tball>
Component:	Jackpot	Assignee:	issues@contrib <issues>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker	CC:	jglick
Priority:	P4
Version:	5.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description _ tball 2005-12-19 20:48:40 UTC

The engine should produce a better error message when a statement doesn't follow
the rule syntax. For example, given this faulty rulefile:

new String(); new String() => new String();

The error message given is:

..../foo.rules:1: => expected:  "new String()" sc="new" r="null"

A better message would be:

..../foo.rules:1: invalid rule format: "new String();" is missing a '=>' expression.

Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2005-12-20 03:14:41 UTC

Something like that. Or even

..../foo.rules:1: invalid rule format: "new String();" is missing a '=>'
expression (maybe forgot "{" ... "}" ?)

if that works.

Comment 2 _ tball 2005-12-20 23:17:47 UTC

Fixed message to:

invalid rule format: "new String();" is missing a '=>' expression
   (perhaps missing braces around a multi-statement block?)