Improve error messages & error handling

[SlnPons]

Objective
Make sure that errors messages displayed to end-users are clear enough for them to solve the problem or to share a meaningful screenshot to the team.

How to

• List all existing error messages
• Write clear and simple messages to display
• Implement new error messages

[SlnPons]

@pivilartisant how do we manage the error and error messaging on deweb V1 please?

[pivilartisant]

@pivilartisant how do we manage the error and error messaging on deweb V1 please?

This concerns the CLI app mainly, but the error is outputed to the terminal and stops the program. error can be copied and pasted to discord channel for support.

[SlnPons]

Thanks so the front-end is using the error messages coming from the CLI directly?

@thomas-senechal could you elaborate on how the error are managed on the CLI side? Do you have an error file that Lucas and I can modify or sth easily editable?

[pivilartisant]

Thanks so the front-end is using the error messages coming from the CLI directly?

@thomas-senechal could you elaborate on how the error are managed on the CLI side? Do you have an error file that Lucas and I can modify or sth easily editable?

Not technically, error on cli and front end are the same when it comes from the node.

On front-end side, wallet errors are displayed "as is" and user can take screenshots

Specifically on cli side, there are errors (wrong password, invalid keypair) that are handled and explicit for user

I believe it would be out of reach to make errors user-friendly at this level because it's node and wallet things that we do not always control.