> Would it be possible to add a getID interface to eu.geclipse.core.reporting.IProblem?
Well, in principle everything is possible ;-)
> I would like to test which exception I cough as to set appropriate dialogTitle and text in the ProblemDialog. I used to do this by getting the Id, but the new IProblem interface doesn't provide an interface to get the id of the problem contained within an ProblemException.
The ID is normally only used internally and therefore I would object to introduce such a method. Concerning your use case I do not think that the dialog title and text should be problem specific. The problem itself already comes with a specific description/reasons/solutions. The dialog is created from within the UI and should rather have a general title and a general text that correspond to the UI action that triggered the problem.
An example would be:
- The user wants to set up a new queue and a problem appears
- The title could then be something like “Batch System Error”
- The text could then be something like “Unable to create a new queue”
- The specific problem reports comes then with the problem’s descriptive text, the reasons, the solutions and the appended exception
Furthermore if you would make your dialog titles and texts depend on the problem’s ID you would have to hardcode this ID somehow which is not desirable.
Cheers, Mathias
