[Babase] unclear sexskin errors

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Thu May 29 15:24:01 EDT 2008


On 05/29/2008 02:02:16 PM, kfenn wrote:
> Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>> 
>> The problem is that the code that's generating the error message
>> only as the sexskin row "at hand", and the sexskin row does not
>> store the sname or anything useful.  I can code a query to
>> get more information after the error is discovered so it can
>> generate a decent error message.
>> 
>> Not that much work because there's not that many sexskin errors.
>> (You could glance at the code to see.)
> Can you (easily) tell me how to do this?  If I once knew, I don't now.

Read: https://papio.biology.duke.edu/src/babase/db/triggers/sexskins.m4

Or use PPA and look at the functions with names that start
with "sexskins" to see the final-macro-expanded-running-version.

All the validation code and errors are in:

https://papio.biology.duke.edu/src/babase/db/triggers/

and

https://papio.biology.duke.edu/src/babase/db/include/

(which has stuff that's shared, along with
https://papio.biology.duke.edu/src/babase/db/triggers/macros.m4
which is also shared by the triggers.)

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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