ClientUser::OutputError( const char * )

Display a message as an error.

Virtual?	Yes
Class	ClientUser
Arguments	const char *errBuf	the error message
Returns	void

Notes

The default implementation sends its argument to stderr. OutputError() is called by functions like HandleError().

Example

Because the default implementation of HandleError() calls it, OutputError() is responsible for printing every error message in Helix Core Server. For example:

p4 files //nonexistent/...
nonexistent - no such file(s).

In this case, the argument to OutputError() is the array containing the error message "nonexistent - no such file(s)."

To change the way error messages are displayed, create a subclass of ClientUser and define an alternate implementation of OutputError().

For example, to print all error messages to stdout rather than stderr, and precede them with the phrase “!!ERROR!!”, implement OutputError() as follows:

void MyClientUser::OutputError( const char *errBuf )
{
    printf( "!!ERROR!! " );
    fwrite( errBuf, 1, strlen( errBuf ), stdout );
}