[erlang-questions] http_uri_parse/1 inconsistent return value + dialyser headache

[Zabrane Mickael]

Following Magnus & Motiejus great suggestions, here it is:

%-------- put this marco somewhere (.hrl, top of your .erl) 
-ifdef(DIALYZER_CATCH).
-define(CATCH_FOR_DIALYZER(X), catch X).
-else.
-define(CATCH_FOR_DIALYZER(X), X).
-endif.

%------- the new code
-spec http_uri_parse([byte()]) -> {ok, tuple()} | {error, atom()}.
http_uri_parse(URL) ->
    case ?CATCH_FOR_DIALYZER(http_uri:parse(URL)) of
        {ok,{_, _, _, _, _, _}} = Ret15 -> %% >=R15B
            Ret15;
        {_, _, _, _, _, _} = Ret14 -> %% =< R14B
            {ok, Ret14};
        Error ->
            Error
    end.

Add this flag "-DDIALYZER_CATCH=1" to your Dialyzer command line:
$ dialyzer --src src --plt /path  ...  -DDIALYZER_CATCH=1

Everything's perfect now.

Thanks for sharing these guys.
You saved my day.

Regards,
Zabrane


On Aug 14, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Magnus Henoch wrote:

> Motiejus Jakštys <desired.mta@REDACTED> writes:
> 
>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Magnus Henoch
>> <magnus.henoch@REDACTED> wrote:
>>> Zabrane Mickael <zabrane3@REDACTED> writes:
>>> 
>>> An advanced variant of that is to define a ?catch_for_dialyzer macro
>>> that expands to nothing for normal compilation, and to 'catch' when
>>> running Dialyzer.
>> 
>> Interesting. How do you know when you are running in dialyzer (i.e.
>> how would you define that macro)?
> 
> The only way I know is to have your build system pass different -D flags
> for normal compilation and dialyzer.
> 
> Regards,
> Magnus