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0008299ParaViewBugpublic2008-12-15 18:552010-02-05 20:01
ReporterKen Moreland 
Assigned ToUtkarsh Ayachit 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
StatusclosedResolutionfixed 
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Target Version3.8Fixed in Version3.8 
Summary0008299: Better reporting on plugin load failure
DescriptionWhen ParaView fails to load a plugin that is selected with the Plugin Manager, you get the mostly unhelpful message "... is not a valid Qt plugin". There are a number of things that might have gone wrong such as incompatible Qt versions, incompatible ParaView versions, mismatched debug/release builds, or missing symbols when linking. It is hard to narrow down the problem without more information.
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(0014415)
Utkarsh Ayachit (administrator)
2008-12-22 09:14

We may also want to provide simple mechanisms (and/or documentation) to check components of the plugin were loaded eg. test if proxy can be created etc.
(0017456)
Utkarsh Ayachit (administrator)
2009-09-14 14:05

Add information about what version of ParaView the plugin was compiled with into the plugin and use that to match the ParaView version at run-time. People often load different version plugins on different versions of ParaView which we clearly don't support. This will save us a lot of headache.
(0017706)
Utkarsh Ayachit (administrator)
2009-09-22 13:39

This is going to be tricky for 3.6.2 since the current plugins don't have meta-data to compare version information etc. Unless someone objects, I am deferring this to 3.8. We need to do a revamp of plugins for 3.8 to provide for better debugging and error reporting.
(0019088)
Utkarsh Ayachit (administrator)
2010-01-11 14:09

Added a PV_PLUGIN_DEBUG environment variable (following Qt's model for providing verbose errors for plugins). If this variable is set, then ParaView prints logs on the terminal which are helpful at determining why the plugin load failed.
(0019464)
Alan Scott (manager)
2010-02-05 20:01

I THINK it's fixed. Tested local server, XP.

 Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2008-12-15 18:55 Ken Moreland New Issue
2008-12-22 09:14 Utkarsh Ayachit Note Added: 0014415
2009-02-17 15:41 Utkarsh Ayachit Status backlog => tabled
2009-02-17 15:41 Utkarsh Ayachit Assigned To => Burlen
2009-05-13 13:46 Utkarsh Ayachit Target Version => 3.6
2009-08-25 11:48 Ken Moreland Assigned To Burlen => Utkarsh Ayachit
2009-08-25 11:48 Ken Moreland Category => Bug
2009-08-25 11:48 Ken Moreland Target Version 3.6 => 3.6.2
2009-09-14 14:05 Utkarsh Ayachit Note Added: 0017456
2009-09-22 13:39 Utkarsh Ayachit Note Added: 0017706
2009-09-22 13:39 Utkarsh Ayachit Target Version 3.6.2 => 3.8
2010-01-11 14:09 Utkarsh Ayachit Note Added: 0019088
2010-01-11 14:09 Utkarsh Ayachit Status tabled => @80@
2010-01-11 14:09 Utkarsh Ayachit Fixed in Version => 3.8
2010-01-11 14:09 Utkarsh Ayachit Resolution open => fixed
2010-02-05 20:01 Alan Scott Note Added: 0019464
2010-02-05 20:01 Alan Scott Status @80@ => closed


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