RuntimeError: Job not found on printer

[bararchy]

Maybe instead of returning an exception is is better to return this in the status ?
as in:

job.status
=> :job_not_found

[bararchy]

I see this is also happening when sending remote jobs:

[145] pry(main)> job3 = print.print_file("/home/unshadow/Downloads/the-complete-works-of-h-p-lovecraft.pdf")
RuntimeError: Success

[nehresma]

I agree that this is a better way to handle statuses. But the API change would break deployments so I haven't made the change.

[bararchy]

I see, maybe then add a hash options when sending the print_file to specify what return value I expect ? that would also be cool and can be default for exception which wont heart running deployments

[nehresma]

That could work. Other APIs (particularly I'm thinking of HTTP REST APIs) do something semantically similar where the caller can request the return results in various formats.

This would be a bit different though in that a "format" choice would include a flow control operation -- exception.

I'll do some thinking about this.

[bararchy]

Sounds good, thanks for giving this a thought :)