phacility/phabricator · error · Exception

You can not accept a draft revision.

Error message

You can not accept a draft revision.

What it means

Error "You can not accept a draft revision." thrown in phacility/phabricator.

Source

Thrown at src/applications/differential/xaction/DifferentialRevisionAcceptTransaction.php:169

    return $this->isViewerFullyAccepted($object, $actor);
  }

  public function applyExternalEffects($object, $value) {
    $status = DifferentialReviewerStatus::STATUS_ACCEPTED;
    $actor = $this->getActor();
    $this->applyReviewerEffect($object, $actor, $value, $status);
  }

  protected function validateAction($object, PhabricatorUser $viewer) {
    if ($object->isClosed()) {
      throw new Exception(
        pht(
          'You can not accept this revision because it has already been '.
          'closed. Only open revisions can be accepted.'));
    }

    if ($object->isDraft() || !$object->getShouldBroadcast()) {
      throw new Exception(
        pht('You can not accept a draft revision.'));
    }

    $config_key = 'differential.allow-self-accept';
    if (!PhabricatorEnv::getEnvConfig($config_key)) {
      if ($this->isViewerRevisionAuthor($object, $viewer)) {
        throw new Exception(
          pht(
            'You can not accept this revision because you are the revision '.
            'author. You can only accept revisions you do not own. You can '.
            'change this behavior by adjusting the "%s" setting in Config.',
            $config_key));
      }
    }

    if ($this->isViewerFullyAccepted($object, $viewer)) {
      throw new Exception(
        pht(

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at src/applications/differential/xaction/DifferentialRevisionAcceptTransaction.php:169 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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