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authorBernd Hufmann2015-02-10 19:55:07 +0000
committerBernd Hufmann2015-02-11 23:08:52 +0000
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tmf: Don't open trace files with validation confidence 0 (Bug 436444)
... and only one valid applicable trace type is available. Change-Id: Id6494df2bf78d1be079ef12e729d6a869c81d260 Signed-off-by: Bernd Hufmann <Bernd.Hufmann@ericsson.com> Reviewed-on: https://git.eclipse.org/r/41566 Reviewed-by: Hudson CI Reviewed-by: Marc-Andre Laperle <marc-andre.laperle@ericsson.com> Tested-by: Marc-Andre Laperle <marc-andre.laperle@ericsson.com>
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@@ -83,14 +83,14 @@ org.eclipse.tracecompass.tracing.examples.core.trace.nexus.NexusTrace.java.
In this example, the '''validate''' function first checks if the file
exists, then makes sure that it is really a file, and not a directory. Then we
attempt to read the file header, to make sure that it is really a Nexus Trace.
-If that check passes, we return a TmfValidationStatus with a confidence of 20.
+If that check passes, we return a TraceValidationStatus with a confidence of 20.
-Typically, TmfValidationStatus confidences should range from 1 to 100. 1 meaning
+Typically, TraceValidationStatus confidences should range from 1 to 100. 1 meaning
"there is a very small chance that this trace is of this type", and 100 meaning
"it is this type for sure, and cannot be anything else". At run-time, the
-auto-detection will pick the the type which returned the highest confidence. So
+auto-detection will pick the type which returned the highest confidence. So
checks of the type "does the file exist?" should not return a too high
-confidence.
+confidence. If confidence 0 is returned the auto-detection won't pick this type.
Here we used a confidence of 20, to leave "room" for more specific trace types
in the Nexus format that could be defined in TMF.

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