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can client-side code insert into the mothership schema?

Ben Bimber

2011-03-09 08:23

Status: Closed

The EHR has complex client-side code. In order to capture errors, most EHR API calls use a standard error callback (EHR.utils.onError). This inserts a row into the table ehr.client_errors. It stores the page, exception, user, etc. Pretty simple idea.

However, there's already something in labkey that does this: the mothership schema. Any chance it's possible to directly insert these records there? As a general rule, I'm trying to have as few EHR-specific things as we can.

Thanks in advance.

jeckels responded:	2011-03-10 09:56
Hi Ben, This is possible. However, we don't have any client API bindings for it and the report is required to include some information like a GUID for the server session (a unique ID generated each time the web server starts up), the server's GUID (a unique ID for a particular installation), etc. For your scenario, I think you could hard-code GUIDs for those fields. The exception reports are just POSTed to a particular URL. We'd need to get the mothership module deployed on your server to receive those requests. Take a look at the Java class org.labkey.mothership.MothershipController.ReportExceptionAction, which is the class that receives the exception report. Also, take a look at org.labkey.api.util.MothershipReport, which is the JAva client code that submits the reports. Thanks, Josh