More chkconfig magic would be helpful

[macintux]

Related to #59

If advanced.config contains a simple tuple without an enclosing array, the error looks like this:

escript: exception error: no function clause matching
                 lists:foldl(#Fun<cuttlefish_advanced.0.102210937>,
                             [{yokozuna,
                               [{root_dir,"./data/yz"},
                                {anti_entropy_data_dir,
                                 "./data/yz_anti_entropy"},
                                {solr_jvm_opts,
                                 "-d64 -Xms1g -Xmx1g -XX:+UseStringCache -XX:+UseCompressedOops"},
                                {solr_jmx_port,8985},

[seancribbs]

Can you include an example of the erroneous advanced.config?

[macintux]

Anything that is not a list should trigger that. I had the riak_kv tuple with add_path inside it, but no global list.

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Can you include an example of the erroneous advanced.config?

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[seancribbs]

Thanks @macintux, that's sufficient to know.

[seancribbs]

@macintux Please see if this suits your needs.

[macintux]

I am unenthused by the error messages, but it's definitely better than before.

The problem now is that the error message doesn't provide anything useful in some cases, and the debug option the command recommends doesn't help either.

E.g., removing the trailing period from the list:

15:07:47.191 [error] Error parsing /Users/John/github/Basho/cuttlefish-cribbs/riak/rel/riak/bin/../etc/advanced.config: 8: syntax error before:

Running riak config generate -l debug as recommended gives a boatload of unrelated information before spitting out the same error.

So definitely better, but would be nice if it were better yet.

[seancribbs]

@macintux Do you have specific ways the error messages could be improved in this case? I'd like this to land in 2.0.2.

[macintux]

syntax error at end of file would be better, missing period at end of list would be moar better, but I don't know how practical either of those are.

I'm fine with this being something we periodically improve (and thus can merge now).

[seancribbs]

This should have targeted 2.0. Closing.