General warning swallower

[Anonymous]

In my solution I'm opening a lot of families from within a project. Sometimes some popups appear during opening a family. I enclosed the opening process inside a transaction in which I handle warnings via IFailuresPreprocessor. I noticed that:

about 90% warnings I can suppres with the following:

FailuresAccessor a;
a.DeleteAllWarnings();
return FailureProcessingResult.Continue;

But the remaining 10% won't get suppressed with such treatment, they do get suppressed with:

FailuresAccessor a;
IList<FailureMessageAccessor> failures = a.GetFailureMessages();
a.ResolveFailures(failures);
return FailureProcessingResult.ProceedWithCommit;

Is there a general way to check with what kind of treatment current warning can get suppressed? I don't want to go into a switch case block because the warnings are really various and it'd take ages before I covered them all. Another issue is that it doesn't matter so much how I treat the warnings because I don't resave the families in my solution - I just close them without saving.

[jeremytammik]

Dear Adam,

Thank you for your cool query.

I am not aware of any generic warning swallower within the Revit API.

The solution you have already seems pretty good to me.

For something yet more generic, all I can suggest is a Windows dialogue handler:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2009/10/dismiss-dialogue-using-windows-api.html

https://github.com/jeremytammik/JtClicker

The Building Coder provides an entire topic group on the subject of Detecting and Handling Dialogues and Failures:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/about-the-author.html#5.32

Please let us know how you end up resolving this.

I am sure your solution will come in handy for others also.

Thank you!

Cheers,

Jeremy

[Wolfgang.B.Weh]

This works fine for me.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/supressing-warning-pop-ups/td-p/4764741

Regards

Wolfgang

[jeremytammik]

Cool. Since you say so, I added it to the topic group:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/about-the-author.html#5.32

Thank you!

Cheers,

Jeremy

[Anonymous]

Thank you gents 🙂

Indeed the Severity is what I was looking for, my solution seems to be working fine now. The code below:

public FailureProcessingResult PreprocessFailures(FailuresAccessor a)
{
	IList<FailureMessageAccessor> failures = a.GetFailureMessages();
	
	foreach(FailureMessageAccessor f in failures)
	{
		FailureSeverity fseverity = a.GetSeverity();
		if(fseverity == FailureSeverity.Warning) a.DeleteWarning(f);
		else
		{
			a.ResolveFailure(f);
			return FailureProcessingResult.ProceedWithCommit;
		}
	}
	return FailureProcessingResult.Continue;
}

Kind regards,

Adam

[jeremytammik]

Thank you very much, Adam and Wolfgang!

I summarised this thread here on The Building Coder:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2016/09/warning-swallower-and-roomedit3d-viewer-extension.h...

Cheers,

Jeremy