Recommended way to obtain a message description

[PetrWolf]

Question

Dear PyLint maintainers,

I recently helped add a PyLint plugin to the JetBrains/teamcity-messages project, integrating PyLint with the Code Inspection feature of TeamCity.

The code uses a custom Reporter to emit special "service message" to TeamCity for each encountered issue. It also registers each unique issue type and that's where I ran into problems.

I used MessagesStore.get_message_definition() to retrieve a full description of an issue type, which worked fine, but it turns out this was moved and renamed in a recent PyLint release. I can adapt the code based on PyLint version, but perhaps there is a better way?

Please could you recommend a way of retrieving a description of a message given its message if (from a custom reporter)?

Thank you!

[PCManticore]

Hey @PetrWolf

Sorry for all this mess, we recently overhauled our message handling and we had to change a few things here and there in a backwards incompatible way.

Right now the authoritative way of grabbing the messages is using MessagesStore .get_message_definitions() which returns a list of MessageDefinition instances.

Let me know if that helps.

[PetrWolf]

Thank you, that works.