[reportlab-users] Error reporting: please say what image is failing

[Roberto Alsina]

On Thursday 18 March 2010 07:38:03 Andy Robinson wrote:

> On 18 March 2010 09:55, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:

> > we can if it's given as a string, and perhaps, as a file like object.

> > Maybe Roberto can give some indication of where the image comes from and

> > perhaps a sample.

> 

> One more idea:  if people are passing in file-like objects, perhaps we

> could allow an optional argument (audit_trail="foo.jpg"?)  to the

> image constructor or function.  If an error occurs and we were not

> given a filename or URL, we could add that argument to the args for

> the exception.

> 

> Examples:  some systems have big databases of images or pull them from

> a database connection, so will be passing us file-like objects.  The

> programmer can then separately add an identifier.

> 

> Roberto, how should rst2pdf behave if an image is missing?  Should it

> fail on first error, or does it have any modes to continue-but-warn,

> or put dummy image placeholders in the PDF? 

>

> You probably have issues we have had in the past with RML...


It currently gives an error and puts a dummy image instead.