Improve error message for private key not found
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- Dominant language
- Go
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Description
Issue To Be Solved
When developers new to Flow fork a starter repo, it's very likely that they will encounter errors relating to their private key not being found. To someone without context, the error could be pretty confusing:
❌ Failed to deploy contract ExampleConnectors: failed to deploy contract ExampleConnectors: could not load the key for the account from provided location testnet.pkey: open testnet.pkey: no such file or directory
❌ Command Error: failed deploying all contracts
(Optional): Suggest A Solution
Adjust the error message to give user clear resolution actions & be more descriptive
(Optional): Context
n/a
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 by locating the Flow CLI deployment path that emits the missing private-key error and trace how the key-loading failure is reported. Update the message to provide clearer resolution actions for a missing key file, then verify the deployment behavior when the referenced private key is absent.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100