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My question is kind of extending of this answer. I want to decorate a path with text only when text fit the path, but also I want to know if decoration was success. I need to know this to be able to call decoration again with shorter text. I need this to implement solution for my question here.

Currently I end up with modifying decoration along path myself using \makeatletter .. \makeatother in document preambule. I just copy text decoration implementation in my preambule and add the setting flag to the end of the persistent precomputation = {..} of the inital state in the following way:

\newif\iffit

\pgfdeclaredecoration{my text along path}{initial}{
  \state{initial}[
    width=+0pt,
    next state=left indent,
    persistent precomputation = {
      ...
      \ifdim\pgf@lib@dec@text@width<\pgfdecoratedpathlength
        \global \fittrue
      \else
        \global \fitfalse
      \fi
    }]{}

And then I can use \iffit in my code to check if decoration if successful. Is there more elegant solution for such case?

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Yes. Add the following 

\makeatletter
    \pgfutil@namedef{pgf@decorate@@text along path@left indent@code}{
        \ifdim\pgf@lib@dec@text@width>\pgfdecoratedremainingdistance
            \tikzerror{text too long}
        \fi
    }
\makeatother

See https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/358705/51022 for more information.

MWE

\documentclass[border=9,tikz]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.text}
\begin{document}

\makeatletter
    \pgfutil@namedef{pgf@decorate@@text along path@left indent@code}{
        \ifdim\pgf@lib@dec@text@width>\pgfdecoratedremainingdistance
            \tikzerror{text too long}
        \fi
    }
\makeatother

\begin{tikzpicture}
    \draw[postaction={decorate,decoration={text along path,
        text={Is this text long enough to trigger the error?}}}]
        (0,0)--(2,0);
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}
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