Textgrid validation

[timmahrt]

Textgrid validation

[GalaxieT]

How about just show warnings and info about it, instead of interrupting the process?

[timmahrt]

I could imagine all three scenarios would be useful in different cases: silence, warn, exit.

[timmahrt]

I'm getting closish to a release. Praatio 5.0 will feature Textgrid validation. Users will have a choice to to silently ignore errors, print to the screen (default behavior), or to stop execution on errors.

Wholistic validation is done on save but more narrow validation is done when automatic "unexpected" behavior might occur, such as when adding new entries to a tier or when adding a tier to a textgrid.
PR to change this and a lot of other things is here: #28

I still need to write lots of tests and update the documentation--I'm going to aim to have it done in a week or two.

[GalaxieT]

Nevermind, and the new release looks amazing!

[timmahrt]

Adding a parameter to addTier to enforce lengths could be prblematic because its used in a lot of places.

What about a "safety" mode set on the Textgrid. If turned on, some operations will throw errors if they encounter unexpected data? Although that sounds kindof vague and hard to understand for the user about when or when something is or is not being validated.

[GalaxieT]

That's very nice!

[timmahrt]

Praatio 5.0 is now released. As with my previous comment functions that may result in automatic "unexpected" behavior take a flag to either silently change, change and print a warning, or throw an exception.

Sorry for the delay, I was too ambitious in all of the features that I added into this release!