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[ui] Reduce confusion when qml loading fails #1728

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Currently we disable all logging out of qml by default. This is problematic in case qml loading fails for any reason (e.g. missing dependencies) as the user will be presented with a message that is not actionable: "QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component". There is no way to understand what's happening unless the user knows about MESHROOM_OUTPUT_QML_WARNINGS.

This is improved by checking for presence of "QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component" and warning if qml logging is disabled in that case.

There has been many issues with this log message and no further logs in the bug tracker, so I'm not the only one who hit this issue. Hopefully this improves debugging experience for everyone.

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p12tic commented Jul 22, 2022

@fabiencastan Just a friendly ping :-)

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# If MESHROOM_OUTPUT_QML_WARNINGS is not set and an error in qml files happen we're left
# without any output except "QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component". This is
# extremely hard to debug to someone who does not know about MESHROOM_OUTPUT_QML_WARNINGS
# beforehand because by default Qml will output errors to stdout.
if "QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component" in message and \
not cls.outputQmlWarnings:
logging.warning("Failed to load QML component, set MESHROOM_OUTPUT_QML_WARNINGS=1 "
"to debug why")

# discard blacklisted Qt messages related to QML when 'output qml warnings' is set to false
if not cls.outputQmlWarnings and any(w in message for w in cls.qmlWarningsBlacklist):
return
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# If MESHROOM_OUTPUT_QML_WARNINGS is not set and an error in qml files happen we're left
# without any output except "QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component". This is
# extremely hard to debug to someone who does not know about MESHROOM_OUTPUT_QML_WARNINGS
# beforehand because by default Qml will output errors to stdout.
if "QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component" in message and \
not cls.outputQmlWarnings:
logging.warning("Failed to load QML component, set MESHROOM_OUTPUT_QML_WARNINGS=1 "
"to debug why")
# discard blacklisted Qt messages related to QML when 'output qml warnings' is set to false
if not cls.outputQmlWarnings and any(w in message for w in cls.qmlWarningsBlacklist):
return
if not cls.outputQmlWarnings:
# If MESHROOM_OUTPUT_QML_WARNINGS is not set and an error in qml files happen we're left
# without any output except "QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component". This is
# extremely hard to debug to someone who does not know about MESHROOM_OUTPUT_QML_WARNINGS
# beforehand because by default Qml will output errors to stdout.
if "QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component" in message:
logging.warning("Set MESHROOM_OUTPUT_QML_WARNINGS=1 to get more detailed error message.")
# discard blacklisted Qt messages related to QML when 'output qml warnings' is not enabled
elif any(w in message for w in cls.qmlWarningsBlacklist):
return

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@p12tic Could you have a look to do this minor update before merge?

@p12tic p12tic force-pushed the reduce-qml-crash-confusion branch from eb3ea46 to d3e3bfd Compare August 4, 2022 12:25
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p12tic commented Aug 25, 2022

@fabiencastan friendly ping :-) I think this PR is good to go in.

logging.warning("Failed to load QML component, set MESHROOM_OUTPUT_QML_WARNINGS=1 "
"to debug why")

if any(w in message for w in cls.qmlWarningsBlacklist):
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if any(w in message for w in cls.qmlWarningsBlacklist):
# discard blacklisted Qt messages related to QML when 'output qml warnings' is not enabled
elif any(w in message for w in cls.qmlWarningsBlacklist):

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I have not tested it, but "elif" would make sense, isn't it?

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Agreed, this way full original message will be included.

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logging.warning("Failed to load QML component, set MESHROOM_OUTPUT_QML_WARNINGS=1 "
"to debug why")
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logging.warning("Failed to load QML component, set MESHROOM_OUTPUT_QML_WARNINGS=1 "
"to debug why")
logging.warning("Set MESHROOM_OUTPUT_QML_WARNINGS=1 to get a detailed error message.")

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Addressed. Sorry for not noticing these changes in your original suggestion. I should just have applied it instead of rewriting manually.

Currently we disable all logging out of qml by default. This is
problematic in case qml loading fails for any reason (e.g. missing
dependencies) as the user will be presented with a message that is not
actionable: "QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component". There is
no way to understand what's happening unless the user knows about
MESHROOM_OUTPUT_QML_WARNINGS.

This is improved by checking for presence of "QQmlApplicationEngine
failed to load component" and warning if qml logging is disabled in that
case.
@fabiencastan fabiencastan added this to the Meshroom 2022.1.0 milestone Aug 25, 2022
@fabiencastan fabiencastan merged commit 78e19a1 into alicevision:develop Aug 25, 2022
@p12tic p12tic deleted the reduce-qml-crash-confusion branch August 25, 2022 22:09
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