How to get publish errors when using the publisher api?

Pipeline Integrations
#1

Is there anyway to get the logged out errors from the publish api?
When my publish plugins validate method returns False is there anyway to get any errors that I logged?

I’m trying to publish remotely on our render farm and I need to be able to tell the artist what failed.

The publish manger’s validate method just returns this when I print it out [(<PublishTask: None>, None)]

Or do I have to keep track of every error I’m logging in all of my plugins to be able to raise them all at once at the end of my validate steps.

#2

The publish plugin has a logger instance, and that writes to the publish log, accessed by clicking at the bottom center.

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#3

I’m using the publish api not the ui.

I ended up having to add my own logging handler that keeps all the error messages to each of the plugins loggers in my task generator function.

I then kept a dictionary of each task and handler so I could look up the right set of errors based on what the managers validate method returned.

#4

Yes in this case you should handle the logging yourself. I suppose the log will appear in your render farm reports. With our Deadline plugins, there are special methods to write to those.