[Windmill-dev] JS error handling

[Matthew Eernisse]

Howdy.

I've recently made some improvements to the error handling in the JS 
tests. Okay, to be honest, I've *added* error handling. :) It's way less 
painful now (even in IE :)) when something goes south while you're 
writing JS tests.

Now that we're getting parse errors and suchlike from the loaded JS test 
code in a place where we can do something with them, what do we want to do?

I'm actually finding now that I'm getting just about as much info about 
these errors as I need right in the Output tab, and don't find myself 
looking in Firebug (it's eval'd code anyway, so line numbers are 
currently worthless).

It might be nice to add a developer option for not rethrowing the error, 
and actually starting the event loop again.

That would mean that parse or execution errors in loaded JS test code 
wouldn't require a reload of the IDE. You could fix the error in your JS 
test code, and just run the tests again.

Thoughts?


Matthew