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`quarto publish connect` should surface deployment errors in the log messge
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Description
Bug description
I used quarto publish connect dashboard.qmd to deploy a static document to Connect. The document's title contained characters that are not allowed as the name of a piece of content on Connect -- title: "posit::conf()".
The output of quarto publish connect only said 400 Bad Request, but I believe the actual error is part of the response. FYI I also tried --log-level debug but that doesn't add much information.
cc @cscheid
Steps to reproduce
Attempt to deploy a static document to Connect with an invalid character in the document title name.
Expected behavior
I don't remember the actual error message, but it was something like this...
❯ quarto publish connect dashboard.qmd
? Publish with account: › gadenbuie (https://connect.example.com/)
[✓] Preparing to publish document
ERROR: API Error: 400 - Bad Request: Content title cannot contain invalid characters.
Stack trace:
at RSConnectClient.handleResponse (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:106512:19)
at RSConnectClient.fetch (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:106466:25)
Actual behavior
❯ quarto publish connect dashboard.qmd
? Publish with account: › gadenbuie (https://connect.example.com/)
[✓] Preparing to publish document
ERROR: API Error: 400 - Bad Request
Stack trace:
at RSConnectClient.handleResponse (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:106512:19)
at RSConnectClient.fetch (file:///Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js:106466:25)
Your environment
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Quarto check output
Quarto 1.5.55
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
Pandoc version 3.2.0: OK
Dart Sass version 1.70.0: OK
Deno version 1.41.0: OK
Typst version 0.11.0: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
Version: 1.5.55
Path: /Applications/quarto/bin
[✓] Checking tools....................OK
TinyTeX: (external install)
Chromium: (not installed)
[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
Using: TinyTex
Path: /Users/garrick/Library/TinyTeX/bin/universal-darwin
Version: 2022
[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK
[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
Version: 3.12.2
Path: /Users/garrick/.rye/py/cpython@3.12.2/bin/python3
Jupyter: (None)
Jupyter is not available in this Python installation.
Install with python3 -m pip install jupyter
[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
Version: 4.4.1
Path: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources
LibPaths:
- /Users/garrick/Library/R/arm64/4.4/library
- /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/library
knitr: 1.48
rmarkdown: 2.27
[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK
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