From 8376734ee3a58edc960cb41663de5cc52c760f5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ronan <flyingrub@protonmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 11:43:40 +0200
Subject: Handle express-validator error on the client side and fix #96 (#98)

* Handle express-validator error on the client side

* More meaningfull error for not supported format
---
 client/src/app/shared/rest/rest-extractor.service.ts | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'client')

diff --git a/client/src/app/shared/rest/rest-extractor.service.ts b/client/src/app/shared/rest/rest-extractor.service.ts
index aafc9723e..b560e2fe4 100644
--- a/client/src/app/shared/rest/rest-extractor.service.ts
+++ b/client/src/app/shared/rest/rest-extractor.service.ts
@@ -45,8 +45,19 @@ export class RestExtractor {
       errorMessage = err.error.message
       console.error('An error occurred:', errorMessage)
     } else if (err.status !== undefined) {
-      const body = err.error
-      errorMessage = body ? body.error : 'Unknown error.'
+      // A server-side error occurred.
+      // TODO: remove when angular/angular#19477 (comment) is fixed
+      let body = JSON.parse(err.error)
+      if (body) {
+        if (body.errors) {
+          const errors = body.errors
+          const error = errors[Object.keys(errors)[0]]
+          errorMessage = error.msg // Take the message of the first error
+        } else if (body.error) {
+          errorMessage = body.error
+        }
+      }
+      errorMessage = errorMessage ? errorMessage : 'Unknown error.'
       console.error(`Backend returned code ${err.status}, body was: ${errorMessage}`)
     } else {
       errorMessage = err
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