[Freeipa-devel] user-friendly 'IPA internal error' message

[Jan Cholasta]

Dne 22.4.2015 v 09:05 Petr Spacek napsal(a):
> Hello,
>
> looking at freeipa-users list, following kind of conversation is quite common:
>
> user: 'IPA reports an internal error, what should I do?'
> dev: 'see HTTPd error log on the IPA server'
> user: 'what server?'
> dev: 'enable debugging on client and see which server was contacted'
>
>
> Can we make InternalError more useful and eliminate this kind of ping-pong?
>
> Looking at sources:
> $ git grep 'class .*InternalError'
> ipalib/errors.py:class InternalError(PublicError):
> ipalib/errors.py:class ServerInternalError(PublicError):
>
> $ git grep ServerInternalError
> ipalib/errors.py:class ServerInternalError(PublicError):
> ipalib/errors.py:    >>> raise ServerInternalError(server='https://localhost')
> ipalib/errors.py:    ServerInternalError: an internal error has occurred on
> server at 'https://localhost'
>
> Apparently somebody was thinking about it in the past but ServerInternalError
> is not used anywhere.
>
> How hard would it be to translate InternalError on client side to
> ServerInternalError with appropriate server name?
>
> Can we extend InternalError with text like this?
> 'See httpd error log on server %s for more details.'
>
> Does it make sense? Should I open a ticket about this?
>

It's a good idea.

On a related note, I would also like the server to send tracebacks to 
the client if debugging is enabled on the server.

-- 
Jan Cholasta