[katello-devel] Error Responses And Subscription Manager

[Dmitri Dolguikh]

On 11-07-06 11:56 AM, Devan Goodwin wrote:
> While working on Katello environment registration we hit an issue
> where subscription-manager expects the response to contain json when
> something goes wrong, something like this:
>
> {
>    "displayMessage" : "Invalid Credentials"
> }%
>
> Katello however is just returning text in the body like this:
>
> "Organization ACME_Corporation has 'locker' environment only. Please
> create an environment for system registration."
>
> Can we standardize on this "displayMessage" packed in JSON format?
> Alternatively I could try just display the response body if we get an
> error and cannot parse JSON from it.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Devan
>
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I think that we should return errors the same way Active Resource does: 
https://engineering.redhat.com/trac/kalpana/wiki/ActiveResourceErrorParsing. 
That would allow for showing more localized (in terms of model fields) 
error messages.

-d
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