virterror: error handling interfaces for the libvirt library

## virterror

virterror - error handling interfaces for the libvirt library

Provides the interfaces of the libvirt library to handle errors raised while using the library. Copyright (C) 2006, 2010-2012 Red Hat, Inc. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Author(s): Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>

## Synopsis

    typedef struct _virError virError;
    typedef enum virErrorDomain;
    typedef enum virErrorLevel;
    typedef enum virErrorNumber;
    typedef virError * virErrorPtr;
    int	virConnCopyLastError		(virConnectPtr conn,
    					 virErrorPtr to);
    virErrorPtr	virConnGetLastError	(virConnectPtr conn);
    void	virConnResetLastError		(virConnectPtr conn);
    void	virConnSetErrorFunc		(virConnectPtr conn,
    					 void * userData,
    					 virErrorFunc handler);
    int	virCopyLastError		(virErrorPtr to);
    void	virDefaultErrorFunc		(virErrorPtr err);
    typedef void virErrorFunc			(void * userData,
    					 virErrorPtr error);
    void	virFreeError			(virErrorPtr err);
    virErrorPtr	virGetLastError		(void);
    const char *	virGetLastErrorMessage	(void);
    void	virResetError			(virErrorPtr err);
    void	virResetLastError		(void);
    virErrorPtr	virSaveLastError	(void);
    void	virSetErrorFunc			(void * userData,
    					 virErrorFunc handler);

## Description

## Details

### Structure virError

    struct _virError {
        int	code	: The error code, a virErrorNumber
        int	domain	: What part of the library raised this error
        char *	message	: human-readable informative error message
        virErrorLevel	level	: how consequent is the error
        virConnectPtr	conn	: connection if available, deprecated see note above
        virDomainPtr	dom	: domain if available, deprecated see note above
        char *	str1	: extra string information
        char *	str2	: extra string information
        char *	str3	: extra string information
        int	int1	: extra number information
        int	int2	: extra number information
        virNetworkPtr	net	: network if available, deprecated see note above
    } virError;

### Enum virErrorDomain

    enum virErrorDomain {
        VIR_FROM_NONE = 0
        VIR_FROM_XEN = 1 /* Error at Xen hypervisor layer */
        VIR_FROM_XEND = 2 /* Error at connection with xend daemon */
        VIR_FROM_XENSTORE = 3 /* Error at connection with xen store */
        VIR_FROM_SEXPR = 4 /* Error in the S-Expression code */
        VIR_FROM_XML = 5 /* Error in the XML code */
        VIR_FROM_DOM = 6 /* Error when operating on a domain */
        VIR_FROM_RPC = 7 /* Error in the XML-RPC code */
        VIR_FROM_PROXY = 8 /* Error in the proxy code; unused since 0.8.6 */
        VIR_FROM_CONF = 9 /* Error in the configuration file handling */
        VIR_FROM_QEMU = 10 /* Error at the QEMU daemon */
        VIR_FROM_NET = 11 /* Error when operating on a network */
        VIR_FROM_TEST = 12 /* Error from test driver */
        VIR_FROM_REMOTE = 13 /* Error from remote driver */
        VIR_FROM_OPENVZ = 14 /* Error from OpenVZ driver */
        VIR_FROM_XENXM = 15 /* Error at Xen XM layer */
        VIR_FROM_STATS_LINUX = 16 /* Error in the Linux Stats code */
        VIR_FROM_LXC = 17 /* Error from Linux Container driver */
        VIR_FROM_STORAGE = 18 /* Error from storage driver */
        VIR_FROM_NETWORK = 19 /* Error from network config */
        VIR_FROM_DOMAIN = 20 /* Error from domain config */
        VIR_FROM_UML = 21 /* Error at the UML driver */
        VIR_FROM_NODEDEV = 22 /* Error from node device monitor */
        VIR_FROM_XEN_INOTIFY = 23 /* Error from xen inotify layer */
        VIR_FROM_SECURITY = 24 /* Error from security framework */
        VIR_FROM_VBOX = 25 /* Error from VirtualBox driver */
        VIR_FROM_INTERFACE = 26 /* Error when operating on an interface */
        VIR_FROM_ONE = 27 /* The OpenNebula driver no longer exists. Retained for ABI/API compat only */
        VIR_FROM_ESX = 28 /* Error from ESX driver */
        VIR_FROM_PHYP = 29 /* Error from IBM power hypervisor */
        VIR_FROM_SECRET = 30 /* Error from secret storage */
        VIR_FROM_CPU = 31 /* Error from CPU driver */
        VIR_FROM_XENAPI = 32 /* Error from XenAPI */
        VIR_FROM_NWFILTER = 33 /* Error from network filter driver */
        VIR_FROM_HOOK = 34 /* Error from Synchronous hooks */
        VIR_FROM_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT = 35 /* Error from domain snapshot */
        VIR_FROM_AUDIT = 36 /* Error from auditing subsystem */
        VIR_FROM_SYSINFO = 37 /* Error from sysinfo/SMBIOS */
        VIR_FROM_STREAMS = 38 /* Error from I/O streams */
        VIR_FROM_VMWARE = 39 /* Error from VMware driver */
        VIR_FROM_EVENT = 40 /* Error from event loop impl */
        VIR_FROM_LIBXL = 41 /* Error from libxenlight driver */
        VIR_FROM_LOCKING = 42 /* Error from lock manager */
        VIR_FROM_HYPERV = 43 /* Error from Hyper-V driver */
        VIR_FROM_CAPABILITIES = 44 /* Error from capabilities */
        VIR_FROM_URI = 45 /* Error from URI handling */
        VIR_FROM_AUTH = 46 /* Error from auth handling */
        VIR_FROM_DBUS = 47 /* Error from DBus */
        VIR_FROM_PARALLELS = 48 /* Error from Parallels */
        VIR_FROM_DEVICE = 49 /* Error from Device */
        VIR_FROM_SSH = 50 /* Error from libssh2 connection transport */
        VIR_FROM_LOCKSPACE = 51 /* Error from lockspace */
        VIR_FROM_INITCTL = 52 /* Error from initctl device communication */
        VIR_FROM_IDENTITY = 53 /* Error from identity code */
        VIR_FROM_CGROUP = 54 /* Error from cgroups */
        VIR_FROM_ACCESS = 55 /* Error from access control manager */
        VIR_FROM_SYSTEMD = 56 /* Error from systemd code */
        VIR_ERR_DOMAIN_LAST = 57
    };

### Enum virErrorLevel

    enum virErrorLevel {
        VIR_ERR_NONE = 0
        VIR_ERR_WARNING = 1 /* A simple warning */
        VIR_ERR_ERROR = 2 /* An error */
    };

### Enum virErrorNumber

    enum virErrorNumber {
        VIR_ERR_OK = 0
        VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR = 1 /* internal error */
        VIR_ERR_NO_MEMORY = 2 /* memory allocation failure */
        VIR_ERR_NO_SUPPORT = 3 /* no support for this function */
        VIR_ERR_UNKNOWN_HOST = 4 /* could not resolve hostname */
        VIR_ERR_NO_CONNECT = 5 /* can't connect to hypervisor */
        VIR_ERR_INVALID_CONN = 6 /* invalid connection object */
        VIR_ERR_INVALID_DOMAIN = 7 /* invalid domain object */
        VIR_ERR_INVALID_ARG = 8 /* invalid function argument */
        VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED = 9 /* a command to hypervisor failed */
        VIR_ERR_GET_FAILED = 10 /* a HTTP GET command to failed */
        VIR_ERR_POST_FAILED = 11 /* a HTTP POST command to failed */
        VIR_ERR_HTTP_ERROR = 12 /* unexpected HTTP error code */
        VIR_ERR_SEXPR_SERIAL = 13 /* failure to serialize an S-Expr */
        VIR_ERR_NO_XEN = 14 /* could not open Xen hypervisor control */
        VIR_ERR_XEN_CALL = 15 /* failure doing an hypervisor call */
        VIR_ERR_OS_TYPE = 16 /* unknown OS type */
        VIR_ERR_NO_KERNEL = 17 /* missing kernel information */
        VIR_ERR_NO_ROOT = 18 /* missing root device information */
        VIR_ERR_NO_SOURCE = 19 /* missing source device information */
        VIR_ERR_NO_TARGET = 20 /* missing target device information */
        VIR_ERR_NO_NAME = 21 /* missing domain name information */
        VIR_ERR_NO_OS = 22 /* missing domain OS information */
        VIR_ERR_NO_DEVICE = 23 /* missing domain devices information */
        VIR_ERR_NO_XENSTORE = 24 /* could not open Xen Store control */
        VIR_ERR_DRIVER_FULL = 25 /* too many drivers registered */
        VIR_ERR_CALL_FAILED = 26 /* not supported by the drivers (DEPRECATED) */
        VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR = 27 /* an XML description is not well formed or broken */
        VIR_ERR_DOM_EXIST = 28 /* the domain already exist */
        VIR_ERR_OPERATION_DENIED = 29 /* operation forbidden on read-only connections */
        VIR_ERR_OPEN_FAILED = 30 /* failed to open a conf file */
        VIR_ERR_READ_FAILED = 31 /* failed to read a conf file */
        VIR_ERR_PARSE_FAILED = 32 /* failed to parse a conf file */
        VIR_ERR_CONF_SYNTAX = 33 /* failed to parse the syntax of a conf file */
        VIR_ERR_WRITE_FAILED = 34 /* failed to write a conf file */
        VIR_ERR_XML_DETAIL = 35 /* detail of an XML error */
        VIR_ERR_INVALID_NETWORK = 36 /* invalid network object */
        VIR_ERR_NETWORK_EXIST = 37 /* the network already exist */
        VIR_ERR_SYSTEM_ERROR = 38 /* general system call failure */
        VIR_ERR_RPC = 39 /* some sort of RPC error */
        VIR_ERR_GNUTLS_ERROR = 40 /* error from a GNUTLS call */
        VIR_WAR_NO_NETWORK = 41 /* failed to start network */
        VIR_ERR_NO_DOMAIN = 42 /* domain not found or unexpectedly disappeared */
        VIR_ERR_NO_NETWORK = 43 /* network not found */
        VIR_ERR_INVALID_MAC = 44 /* invalid MAC address */
        VIR_ERR_AUTH_FAILED = 45 /* authentication failed */
        VIR_ERR_INVALID_STORAGE_POOL = 46 /* invalid storage pool object */
        VIR_ERR_INVALID_STORAGE_VOL = 47 /* invalid storage vol object */
        VIR_WAR_NO_STORAGE = 48 /* failed to start storage */
        VIR_ERR_NO_STORAGE_POOL = 49 /* storage pool not found */
        VIR_ERR_NO_STORAGE_VOL = 50 /* storage volume not found */
        VIR_WAR_NO_NODE = 51 /* failed to start node driver */
        VIR_ERR_INVALID_NODE_DEVICE = 52 /* invalid node device object */
        VIR_ERR_NO_NODE_DEVICE = 53 /* node device not found */
        VIR_ERR_NO_SECURITY_MODEL = 54 /* security model not found */
        VIR_ERR_OPERATION_INVALID = 55 /* operation is not applicable at this time */
        VIR_WAR_NO_INTERFACE = 56 /* failed to start interface driver */
        VIR_ERR_NO_INTERFACE = 57 /* interface driver not running */
        VIR_ERR_INVALID_INTERFACE = 58 /* invalid interface object */
        VIR_ERR_MULTIPLE_INTERFACES = 59 /* more than one matching interface found */
        VIR_WAR_NO_NWFILTER = 60 /* failed to start nwfilter driver */
        VIR_ERR_INVALID_NWFILTER = 61 /* invalid nwfilter object */
        VIR_ERR_NO_NWFILTER = 62 /* nw filter pool not found */
        VIR_ERR_BUILD_FIREWALL = 63 /* nw filter pool not found */
        VIR_WAR_NO_SECRET = 64 /* failed to start secret storage */
        VIR_ERR_INVALID_SECRET = 65 /* invalid secret */
        VIR_ERR_NO_SECRET = 66 /* secret not found */
        VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED = 67 /* unsupported configuration construct */
        VIR_ERR_OPERATION_TIMEOUT = 68 /* timeout occurred during operation */
        VIR_ERR_MIGRATE_PERSIST_FAILED = 69 /* a migration worked, but making the VM persist on the dest host failed */
        VIR_ERR_HOOK_SCRIPT_FAILED = 70 /* a synchronous hook script failed */
        VIR_ERR_INVALID_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT = 71 /* invalid domain snapshot */
        VIR_ERR_NO_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT = 72 /* domain snapshot not found */
        VIR_ERR_INVALID_STREAM = 73 /* stream pointer not valid */
        VIR_ERR_ARGUMENT_UNSUPPORTED = 74 /* valid API use but unsupported by the given driver */
        VIR_ERR_STORAGE_PROBE_FAILED = 75 /* storage pool probe failed */
        VIR_ERR_STORAGE_POOL_BUILT = 76 /* storage pool already built */
        VIR_ERR_SNAPSHOT_REVERT_RISKY = 77 /* force was not requested for a risky domain snapshot revert */
        VIR_ERR_OPERATION_ABORTED = 78 /* operation on a domain was canceled/aborted by user */
        VIR_ERR_AUTH_CANCELLED = 79 /* authentication cancelled */
        VIR_ERR_NO_DOMAIN_METADATA = 80 /* The metadata is not present */
        VIR_ERR_MIGRATE_UNSAFE = 81 /* Migration is not safe */
        VIR_ERR_OVERFLOW = 82 /* integer overflow */
        VIR_ERR_BLOCK_COPY_ACTIVE = 83 /* action prevented by block copy job */
        VIR_ERR_OPERATION_UNSUPPORTED = 84 /* The requested operation is not supported */
        VIR_ERR_SSH = 85 /* error in ssh transport driver */
        VIR_ERR_AGENT_UNRESPONSIVE = 86 /* guest agent is unresponsive, not running or not usable */
        VIR_ERR_RESOURCE_BUSY = 87 /* resource is already in use */
        VIR_ERR_ACCESS_DENIED = 88 /* operation on the object/resource was denied */
        VIR_ERR_DBUS_SERVICE = 89 /* error from a dbus service */
    };

### Typedef virErrorPtr

    virError * virErrorPtr;

### Function type virErrorFunc

    void	virErrorFunc			(void * userData,
    					 virErrorPtr error)

Signature of a function to use when there is an error raised by the library.

`userData`: | user provided data for the error callback
`error`: | the error being raised.

### virConnCopyLastError ()

    int	virConnCopyLastError		(virConnectPtr conn,
    					 virErrorPtr to)

Copy the content of the last error caught on that connection This method is not protected against access from multiple threads. In a multi-threaded application, always use the global virGetLastError() API which is backed by thread local storage. If the connection object was discovered to be invalid by an API call, then the error will be reported against the global error object. Since 0.6.0, all errors reported in the per-connection object are also duplicated in the global error object. As such an application can always use virGetLastError(). This method remains for backwards compatibility. One will need to free the result with virResetError()

`conn`: | pointer to the hypervisor connection
`to`: | target to receive the copy
`Returns`: | 0 if no error was found and the error code otherwise and -1 in case of parameter error.

### virConnGetLastError ()

    virErrorPtr	virConnGetLastError	(virConnectPtr conn)

Provide a pointer to the last error caught on that connection This method is not protected against access from multiple threads. In a multi-threaded application, always use the global virGetLastError() API which is backed by thread local storage. If the connection object was discovered to be invalid by an API call, then the error will be reported against the global error object. Since 0.6.0, all errors reported in the per-connection object are also duplicated in the global error object. As such an application can always use virGetLastError(). This method remains for backwards compatibility.

`conn`: | pointer to the hypervisor connection
`Returns`: | a pointer to the last error or NULL if none occurred.

### virConnResetLastError ()

    void	virConnResetLastError		(virConnectPtr conn)

The error object is kept in thread local storage, so separate threads can safely access this concurrently. Reset the last error caught on that connection

`conn`: | pointer to the hypervisor connection

### virConnSetErrorFunc ()

    void	virConnSetErrorFunc		(virConnectPtr conn,
    					 void * userData,
    					 virErrorFunc handler)

Set a connection error handling function, if @handler is NULL it will reset to default which is to pass error back to the global library handler.

`conn`: | pointer to the hypervisor connection
`userData`: | pointer to the user data provided in the handler callback
`handler`: | the function to get called in case of error or NULL

### virCopyLastError ()

    int	virCopyLastError		(virErrorPtr to)

Copy the content of the last error caught at the library level The error object is kept in thread local storage, so separate threads can safely access this concurrently. One will need to free the result with virResetError()

`to`: | target to receive the copy
`Returns`: | 0 if no error was found and the error code otherwise and -1 in case of parameter error.

### virDefaultErrorFunc ()

    void	virDefaultErrorFunc		(virErrorPtr err)

Default routine reporting an error to stderr.

`err`: | pointer to the error.

### virFreeError ()

    void	virFreeError			(virErrorPtr err)

Resets and frees the given error.

`err`: | error to free

### virGetLastError ()

    virErrorPtr	virGetLastError		(void)

Provide a pointer to the last error caught at the library level The error object is kept in thread local storage, so separate threads can safely access this concurrently.

`Returns`: | a pointer to the last error or NULL if none occurred.

### virGetLastErrorMessage ()

    const char *	virGetLastErrorMessage	(void)

Get the most recent error message

`Returns`: | the most recent error message string in this thread, or a generic message if none is set

### virResetError ()

    void	virResetError			(virErrorPtr err)

Reset the error being pointed to

`err`: | pointer to the virError to clean up

### virResetLastError ()

    void	virResetLastError		(void)

Reset the last error caught at the library level. The error object is kept in thread local storage, so separate threads can safely access this concurrently, only resetting their own error object.

### virSaveLastError ()

    virErrorPtr	virSaveLastError	(void)

Save the last error into a new error object. On success, errno is unchanged; on failure, errno is ENOMEM.

`Returns`: | a pointer to the copied error or NULL if allocation failed. It is the caller's responsibility to free the error with virFreeError().

### virSetErrorFunc ()

    void	virSetErrorFunc			(void * userData,
    					 virErrorFunc handler)

Set a library global error handling function, if @handler is NULL, it will reset to default printing on stderr. The error raised there are those for which no handler at the connection level could caught.

`userData`: | pointer to the user data provided in the handler callback
`handler`: | the function to get called in case of error or NULL