This PR attempts to improve some issues we encountered with formatters.
Specifically:
Due to our inheritance pattern and formatter re-use, it was difficult to track down the specific fields that caused exceptions to arise from formatters, so we now salt the raised exception with some added context.
We then discovered a formatter that was returning a string longer than a given field's size constraint; when encountering this during record generation, raise an exception.
One of the tools we used to identify the issue was the debug HTML decorator. Changing the generated page's background-color CSS property to something other than the fields' background color allowed us to easily spot records that exceeded the record length.
Thanks for building Fixy!
This PR attempts to improve some issues we encountered with formatters.
Specifically:
background-colorCSS property to something other than the fields' background color allowed us to easily spot records that exceeded the record length.Cheers! :beers: