"error-type" element needed in grammar

David Malcolm dmalcolm at redhat.com
Fri Jul 5 17:30:21 UTC 2013


On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 19:27 +0200, Matthieu Caneill wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 7:18 PM, David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 17:56 +0200, Matthieu Caneill wrote:
> >> I use the Coccinelle [1] static analyzer (which I've instrumented to
> >> support Firehose output), and it can process different kind of
> >> (possibly user-defined) tests. It could be useful to add a variable in
> >> the issue element to categorize more precisely the type of error; and
> >> any other tool which supports different kind of tests would benefit
> >> from such an extension. Such an element could be called "error-type"
> >> or "check-name". What do you think about this? I can submit a pull
> >> request if you agree with this.
> >
> > Isn't this just the test-id attribute of <issue> ?
> 
> I didn't see this like an error type, but after re-reading its
> description it seems that it's the corresponding item. Thanks!

Hmmmm... perhaps the attribute needs renaming, or a better description?



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