Example DSL for error reporting

reporters.thanks

// spaces/tabs separate unless preceded with a comma, which makes list members, or surrounded by '', which makes js string notation
// first is operator; after that are expected-length varargs like irc

// 2nd argument to thanks is list of front of string matches for things raised by keyword report





thanks_alias         everybody   aaron, becca, carl, dana, eric, farah
thanks_alias         everybody   gerry, heddy
thanks_alias         engineering aaron, becca, farah
thanks_alias         qa          dana, eric

thanks_target        http://some.site/error_reporting/
thanks_log           archive
thanks_rageface      enable

thanks aaron         'Object Undefined:'
thanks becca         server.50
thanks carl          user.no_referrer, user.missing_data, user.contact_invalid
thanks dana          art.no_asset, art.wrong_resolution
thanks dana, art     art.asset_corrupt
thanks eric          i18n.
thanks farah         outage., ops.
thanks gerry         tcp.
thanks heddy         bot., ddos.

thanks art, qa       art.placeholder_asset
thanks art           art.
thanks security      security.
thanks ops, frontend ajax.

thanks everybody     user_complaint.
thanks everybody     severe.

thanks engineering   undefined





// in practice

$.ajax(whatever)
    .done(...)
    .fail(function(data) {
        report 'ajax.no_connection';
    })





// also, if you are puerile like i am, and still think "thanks, obama" is funny
// you can define an alias called obama which goes to whoever handles catch-all
// events, which i would generally expect to be engineering broadcast
//
// then you would get to write the rule
//
// thanks obama     undefined