On 5 June 2018 at 20:41, Eric Sunshine <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 6:56 AM Luke Diamand <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 5 June 2018 at 10:54, Eric Sunshine <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 5:14 AM Luke Diamand <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> + m = re.search('Too many rows scanned \(over
>> >> (\d+)\)', data)
>> >> + if not m:
>> >> + m = re.search('Request too large \(over
>> >> (\d+)\)', data)
>> >
>> > Does 'p4' localize these error messages?
>>
>> That's a good question.
>>
>> It turns out that Perforce open-sourced the P4 client in 2014 (I only
>> recently found this out) so we can actually look at the code now!
>>
>> Here's the code:
>>
>> // ErrorId graveyard: retired/deprecated ErrorIds.
>
> Hmm, the "too many rows" error you're seeing is retired/deprecated(?).
There's some code elsewhere that suggests it's being kept alive:
// Retired ErrorIds. We need to keep these so that clients
// built with newer apis can commnunicate with older servers
// still sending these.
static ErrorId MaxResults; // DEPRECATED
static ErrorId MaxScanRows; // DEPRECATED
>
>> ErrorId MsgDb::MaxResults = { ErrorOf( ES_DB, 32,
>> E_FAILED, EV_ADMIN, 1 ), "Request too large (over %maxResults%); see
>> 'p4 help maxresults'." } ;//NOTRANS
>> ErrorId MsgDb::MaxScanRows = { ErrorOf( ES_DB, 61,
>> E_FAILED, EV_ADMIN, 1 ), "Too many rows scanned (over %maxScanRows%);
>> see 'p4 help maxscanrows'." } ;//NOTRANS
>>
>> I don't think there's actually a way to make it return any language
>> other than English though. [...]
>> So I think probably the language is always English.
>
> The "NOTRANS" annotation on the error messages is reassuring.
I'll check it works OK on Windows; charset translation might cause a problem.
