Re: Getting more meaningful error out of back-config

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Ralf Haferkamp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to improve the error messages that back-config returns via LDAP to 
> the client. Currently in many case you only get back a very generic error 
> messages. E.g. when trying to add a second monitor database you just get:
> Error code LDAP_OTHER with the diagnostic message set to "<olcDatabase> failed 
> init". To find out what really went wrong you need to dig up the logfiles.
>
> One way to get more meaningful error messages to the client would be by adding 
> an additional const char** text parameter to the _db_init functions (and 
> probably some other of the BI_db_func() functions as well), similiar to what 
> is done in many other case when error messages need to be passed to the 
> caller.
>
> Does somebody have better ideas how to achieve this?
That sounds like a good enough approach. Go ahead...

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