Currently, if an instrument session is typed incorrectly, a very unhelpful error message is given. A few scenarios were tried, including:
- An incorrectly formatted session id (
cm1234-1): RuntimeError: Numtracker error: [{'message': 'Authentication failed', 'locations': [{'line': 3, 'column': 5}], 'path': ['scan']}]
- A correctly formatted but non-existent session id (
cm12345-1): RuntimeError: Numtracker error: [{'message': 'Authentication failed', 'locations': [{'line': 3, 'column': 5}], 'path': ['scan']}]
- An correctly formatted but non-existant session id with the correct proposal number and session number, but incorrect prefix (
sm44191-3):
- With no file-writing detector: A "successful" task run, with failure to write a nexus file -
{"timestamp":"2026-06-15T08:14:56.496","level":"ERROR","thread":"pool-1-thread-4","logger":"uk.ac.diamond.daq.services.BlueskyNexusFileWriterService","message":"Unable to find File for ScanID 3b700b88-21dd-420d-89e2-281c2ba28d93","context":"default","beamline":"b01-1","application_name":"Document to Nexus Converter"}
- With a file writing detector: A "failed" task run, with the file-writing detector throwing an error -
<WatchableAsyncStatus, device: spectroscopy_detector, task: <coroutine object AsyncStatusBase.__init__.<locals>.wait_with_error_message at 0x7f8e7808d740>, errored: FileNotFoundError("Path /dls/b01-1/data/2026/sm44191-3/spool/ doesn't exist or not writable!")>
With respect to the first two errors, it would be good if some indication were given as to what was wrong - i.e. something along the lines of "Instrument session / visit was not recognised"
Currently, if an instrument session is typed incorrectly, a very unhelpful error message is given. A few scenarios were tried, including:
cm1234-1):RuntimeError: Numtracker error: [{'message': 'Authentication failed', 'locations': [{'line': 3, 'column': 5}], 'path': ['scan']}]cm12345-1):RuntimeError: Numtracker error: [{'message': 'Authentication failed', 'locations': [{'line': 3, 'column': 5}], 'path': ['scan']}]sm44191-3):{"timestamp":"2026-06-15T08:14:56.496","level":"ERROR","thread":"pool-1-thread-4","logger":"uk.ac.diamond.daq.services.BlueskyNexusFileWriterService","message":"Unable to find File for ScanID 3b700b88-21dd-420d-89e2-281c2ba28d93","context":"default","beamline":"b01-1","application_name":"Document to Nexus Converter"}<WatchableAsyncStatus, device: spectroscopy_detector, task: <coroutine object AsyncStatusBase.__init__.<locals>.wait_with_error_message at 0x7f8e7808d740>, errored: FileNotFoundError("Path /dls/b01-1/data/2026/sm44191-3/spool/ doesn't exist or not writable!")>With respect to the first two errors, it would be good if some indication were given as to what was wrong - i.e. something along the lines of "Instrument session / visit was not recognised"