Feature: improve logging related to finding files by alhirzel · Pull Request #285 · mitsuba-renderer/mitsuba3

alhirzel · 2022-09-28T02:14:20Z

Description

Improves debug and trace logging when trying to locate files using the file resolver.

Showing the result of this change, note the basic output is unchanged:

alhirzel@gecko:/tmp $ mitsuba file_error.xml
2022-09-28 07:29:05 INFO  main  [mitsuba.cpp:340] Mitsuba version 3.0.2 (makepkg[d456826e], Linux, 64bit, 24 threads, 8-wide SIMD)
2022-09-28 07:29:05 INFO  main  [mitsuba.cpp:341] Copyright 2022, Realistic Graphics Lab, EPFL
2022-09-28 07:29:05 INFO  main  [mitsuba.cpp:342] Enabled processor features: cuda llvm avx2 avx fma f16c sse4.2 x86_64
2022-09-28 07:29:05 INFO  main  [xml.cpp:1405] Loading XML file "file_error.xml" with variant "scalar_rgb"..

Caught a critical exception: [xml.cpp:1112] Error while loading "file_error.xml" (near line 2, col 6): could not instantiate shape plugin of type "obj": 
[xml.cpp:1112]   [OBJMesh] Error while loading OBJ file "DOES_NOT_EXIST.obj": file not found

With Debug each lookup is annotated:

alhirzel@gecko:/tmp $ mitsuba -v file_error.xml
2022-09-28 07:29:09 INFO  main  [mitsuba.cpp:340] Mitsuba version 3.0.2 (makepkg[d456826e], Linux, 64bit, 24 threads, 8-wide SIMD)
2022-09-28 07:29:09 INFO  main  [mitsuba.cpp:341] Copyright 2022, Realistic Graphics Lab, EPFL
2022-09-28 07:29:09 INFO  main  [mitsuba.cpp:342] Enabled processor features: cuda llvm avx2 avx fma f16c sse4.2 x86_64
2022-09-28 07:29:09 INFO  main  [xml.cpp:1405] Loading XML file "file_error.xml" with variant "scalar_rgb"..
2022-09-28 07:29:09 DEBUG wrk0  [FileResolver] Looking for file "plugins/obj.so" on the resource search path(s)
2022-09-28 07:29:09 DEBUG wrk0  [PluginManager] Loading plugin "plugins/obj.so" ..
2022-09-28 07:29:09 DEBUG wrk0  [FileResolver] Looking for file "plugins/diffuse.so" on the resource search path(s)
2022-09-28 07:29:09 DEBUG wrk0  [PluginManager] Loading plugin "plugins/diffuse.so" ..
2022-09-28 07:29:09 DEBUG wrk0  [FileResolver] Looking for file "plugins/uniform.so" on the resource search path(s)
2022-09-28 07:29:09 DEBUG wrk0  [PluginManager] Loading plugin "plugins/uniform.so" ..
2022-09-28 07:29:09 DEBUG wrk0  [FileResolver] Looking for file "DOES_NOT_EXIST.obj" on the resource search path(s)
2022-09-28 07:29:09 DEBUG wrk0  [OBJMesh] Loading mesh from "DOES_NOT_EXIST.obj" ..

Caught a critical exception: [xml.cpp:1112] Error while loading "file_error.xml" (near line 2, col 6): could not instantiate shape plugin of type "obj": 
[xml.cpp:1112]   [OBJMesh] Error while loading OBJ file "DOES_NOT_EXIST.obj": file not found

And finally for Trace detailed info about where is checked:

alhirzel@gecko:/tmp $ mitsuba -vv file_error.xml
2022-09-28 07:29:13 INFO  main  [mitsuba.cpp:340] Mitsuba version 3.0.2 (makepkg[d456826e], Linux, 64bit, 24 threads, 8-wide SIMD)
2022-09-28 07:29:13 INFO  main  [mitsuba.cpp:341] Copyright 2022, Realistic Graphics Lab, EPFL
2022-09-28 07:29:13 INFO  main  [mitsuba.cpp:342] Enabled processor features: cuda llvm avx2 avx fma f16c sse4.2 x86_64
2022-09-28 07:29:13 INFO  main  [xml.cpp:1405] Loading XML file "file_error.xml" with variant "scalar_rgb"..
2022-09-28 07:29:13 DEBUG wrk0  [FileResolver] Looking for file "plugins/obj.so" on the resource search path(s)
2022-09-28 07:29:13 TRACE wrk0  [FileResolver] Didn't find file "plugins/obj.so" at /tmp/plugins/obj.so
2022-09-28 07:29:13 TRACE wrk0  [FileResolver] Found file "plugins/obj.so" at /usr/lib/mitsuba3-git/plugins/obj.so
2022-09-28 07:29:13 DEBUG wrk0  [PluginManager] Loading plugin "plugins/obj.so" ..
2022-09-28 07:29:13 DEBUG wrk0  [FileResolver] Looking for file "plugins/diffuse.so" on the resource search path(s)
2022-09-28 07:29:13 TRACE wrk0  [FileResolver] Didn't find file "plugins/diffuse.so" at /tmp/plugins/diffuse.so
2022-09-28 07:29:13 TRACE wrk0  [FileResolver] Found file "plugins/diffuse.so" at /usr/lib/mitsuba3-git/plugins/diffuse.so
2022-09-28 07:29:13 DEBUG wrk0  [PluginManager] Loading plugin "plugins/diffuse.so" ..
2022-09-28 07:29:13 DEBUG wrk0  [FileResolver] Looking for file "plugins/uniform.so" on the resource search path(s)
2022-09-28 07:29:13 TRACE wrk0  [FileResolver] Didn't find file "plugins/uniform.so" at /tmp/plugins/uniform.so
2022-09-28 07:29:13 TRACE wrk0  [FileResolver] Found file "plugins/uniform.so" at /usr/lib/mitsuba3-git/plugins/uniform.so
2022-09-28 07:29:13 DEBUG wrk0  [PluginManager] Loading plugin "plugins/uniform.so" ..
2022-09-28 07:29:13 DEBUG wrk0  [FileResolver] Looking for file "DOES_NOT_EXIST.obj" on the resource search path(s)
2022-09-28 07:29:13 TRACE wrk0  [FileResolver] Didn't find file "DOES_NOT_EXIST.obj" at /tmp/DOES_NOT_EXIST.obj
2022-09-28 07:29:13 TRACE wrk0  [FileResolver] Didn't find file "DOES_NOT_EXIST.obj" at /usr/lib/mitsuba3-git/DOES_NOT_EXIST.obj
2022-09-28 07:29:13 TRACE wrk0  [FileResolver] Didn't find file "DOES_NOT_EXIST.obj" at DOES_NOT_EXIST.obj
2022-09-28 07:29:13 TRACE wrk0  [FileResolver] Didn't find file "DOES_NOT_EXIST.obj" at DOES_NOT_EXIST.obj
2022-09-28 07:29:13 DEBUG wrk0  [OBJMesh] Loading mesh from "DOES_NOT_EXIST.obj" ..

Caught a critical exception: [xml.cpp:1112] Error while loading "file_error.xml" (near line 2, col 6): could not instantiate shape plugin of type "obj": 
[xml.cpp:1112]   [OBJMesh] Error while loading OBJ file "DOES_NOT_EXIST.obj": file not found

Testing

I did not run the test suite because I am naively assuming this is a non-breaking change.

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My code follows the style guidelines of this project
My changes generate no new warnings
My code also compiles for cuda_* and llvm_* variants. If you can't test this, please leave below
I have commented my code
I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
I cleaned the commit history and removed any "Merge" commits
I give permission that the Mitsuba 3 project may redistribute my contributions under the terms of its license

Speierers

Hi @alhirzel, thanks for this PR.

Reading the PR description it seems that the output is missing.

Speierers · 2022-09-28T07:22:04Z

src/core/fresolver.cpp


 fs::path FileResolver::resolve(const fs::path &path) const {
    if (!path.is_absolute()) {
+        Log(Debug, "Looking for file \"%s\" on the resource search path(s)", path.native());


Shouldn't this be logged into Trace as well?

Currently Debug is written once per file lookup, and Trace is written once per path check. You're right that I forgot to paste the output--maybe it makes the behavior more clear.

IMO this is a little too much for debug mode. I would like to be able to compile in debug mode while not always having those logs. Let's use Trace here to have control. In any case, the log messages you are adding in this PR are useful to debug a situation where a file couldn't be found, in which case you will need to switch to Trace to see all the messages.

Ok, agree, I will make all of the outputs part of Trace.

alhirzel · 2022-09-28T20:25:28Z

I updated this to include a few more improvements that are in the following spirit (which I also added to the dev docs):

When writing error or log messages that refer to an existing file, include the full path to the file by default.

Speierers · 2022-09-29T07:09:52Z

src/core/plugin.cpp


        if (fs::exists(resolved)) {
-            Log(Debug, "Loading plugin \"%s\" ..", filename.string());
+            Log(Debug, "Loading plugin \"%s\" from \"%s\" ..", name, resolved.string());


I don't think that's necessary.

Ok - I plan to change it to use the full resolved path then. See what you think.

Speierers · 2022-09-29T07:10:33Z

src/core/spectrum.cpp

+        Log(Error, "\"%s\": file does not exist!", file_path.string());

-    Log(Info, "Loading spectral data file \"%s\" ..", file_path);
+    Log(Info, "Loading spectral data file \"%s\" ..", file_path.string());


Does this fix a specific bug? What is the log message before and after this change?

I actually made these types of changes during a very pedantic file path review for consistency in explicitly calling .string(); I don't know that it fixes a bug. I will back out this for less noise in the PR!

Speierers · 2022-09-29T07:11:14Z

src/emitters/envmap.cpp

        if (bitmap->width() < 2 || bitmap->height() < 3)
            Throw("\"%s\": the environment map resolution must be at "
-                  "least 2x3 pixels", m_filename);
+                  "least 2x3 pixels", file_path.string());


Same question here.

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