[FEATURE] Show HTTP Body in case of an error, e.g. Bad Request 400
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Description
What / Why
Using a repository other than the NPM registry, e.g. Gitlab's package registry, there are several different reasons, why HTTP response STATUS codes could be other than 200.
When
- Try to publish an npm package to a Gitlab's project registry
- The package has already been published to another Gitlab project on the same instance
- HTTP Status code will be 400 and the response's body contains the relevant information being "message: 'Validation failed: Package already exists'"
- NPM registry fetch does hide this information, even when ran in verbose mode, so you only get informed about the HTTP Status code
Where
- Gitlab's package registry
Current Behavior
You'll only get presented an information like this
npm ERR! code E400
npm ERR! 400 Bad Request - PUT https://someUrl
Expected Behavior
checkErrorsin check-response.js should print the message's body to the console, if not empty and thereby provide more information send by the specific registry system.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start in check-response.js at checkErrors, which the issue identifies as the relevant entry point. Reproduce the GitLab package-registry 400 response described in the issue and inspect how the response body is handled. Done means a non-empty error body is shown alongside the HTTP error details without changing the existing status reporting.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, nodejs
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100