[GitHub] flimzy opened a new issue #927: Confusing error message for bad index creation

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flimzy opened a new issue #927: Confusing error message for bad index creation
URL: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/927
 
 
   I attempted to create an index, with a mal-formed `fields` value:
   
       curl -v -X POST http://admin:abc123@localhost:6002/foo/_index -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"index":{"fields":"foo"}}'
   
   And got the following error message:
   
       {"error":"invalid_sort_json","reason":"Sort must be an array of sort specs, not: <<102,111,111>>"}
   
   I would expect:
   
   1. that `<<102,111,111>>` be replaced with something human-readable.  Even just `foo` in this case would be an improvement.
   2. That it would refer to the `fields` key by name, rather than by `Sort`.
   
   ## Your Environment
   
   CouchDB/2.1.0 (Erlang OTP/17)
   

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