[GitHub] brooklyn-server pull request #571: Better error reporting

[ahgittin <gi...@git.apache.org>]

Github user ahgittin commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/brooklyn-server/pull/571#discussion_r104112617
  
    --- Diff: rest/rest-resources/src/main/java/org/apache/brooklyn/rest/resources/ApplicationResource.java ---
    @@ -374,7 +378,13 @@ public Response createPoly(byte[] inputToAutodetectType) {
     
     
             if (spec != null) {
    -            return launch(potentialYaml, spec);
    +            try {
    +                return launch(potentialYaml, spec);
    +            } catch (Exception e) {
    +                Exceptions.propagateIfFatal(e);
    +                log.warn("Failed REST deployment launching "+spec+": "+e);
    +                throw WebResourceUtils.badRequest(e, "Error launching blueprint (autodetecting)");
    --- End diff --
    
    This seemed like the best status code to use and it's what we use on line 294/297.  Do you think there's a better one?  If we do nothing it will give Internal Server Error which seems worse?


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