IMGIITRoorkee / IMGIITRoorkee/PwManager
Improve error handling for missing password files
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Description
Currently, if a password file is missing when loading it, the program throws an error. Add error handling to display a user-friendly message when a file doesn't exist.
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Research direction
Start at the password-file loading path and reproduce the behavior with a missing file. Handle the missing-file case with a user-friendly message instead of an unhandled error, then verify that existing password files still load normally.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- security
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100