attachment:whaterr.py of Error_messages

   1 #!/usr/bin/python
   2 """
   3 Renders couchdb / erlang errors nicely. Receives the error on stdin and sends to stdout
   4 """
   5 
   6 import sys
   7 from urllib import urlopen
   8 import json
   9 
  10 if len(sys.argv) == 2:
  11     try:
  12         data = urlopen(sys.argv[1]).read()
  13     except:
  14         print "Couldn't download url:", sys.argv[1]
  15         exit()
  16     try:
  17         data = json.loads(data)
  18     except:
  19         print "Response wasn't valid json. RESPONSE:"
  20         print data
  21         exit()
  22     print 'ERROR:', data['error']
  23     print
  24     print 'REASON:'
  25     print data['reason']
  26 else:
  27     print '''
  28 Usage: %(name)s url
  29 
  30 If you have a url that's printing you a horrble painful error message, (especially mustache errors),
  31 this util prints it in a slightly less painful way.
  32 
  33 eg. %(name)s http://localhost:5984/dbname/_design/designname/_list/listname/viewname
  34 eg. %(name)s http://localhost:5984/footprint/_design/footprint/_list/products/products
  35 ''' % {'name': sys.argv[0]}