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Description

Framework level improvements for for contextual and localized API error messages

Design spec: Error Message Consistency, Customization, and Localization Framework

Types of changes

  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
  • Enhancement (improves an existing feature and functionality)
  • Cleanup (Code refactoring and cleanup, that may add test cases)
  • Build/CI
  • Test (unit or integration test code)

Feature/Enhancement Scale or Bug Severity

Feature/Enhancement Scale

  • Major
  • Minor

Bug Severity

  • BLOCKER
  • Critical
  • Major
  • Minor
  • Trivial

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Refined error message with additional context for admin
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User facing error, with localization
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Example API response

{
    "deployvirtualmachineresponse": {
        "uuidList": [],
        "errorcode": 535,
        "cserrorcode": 9999,
        "errortext": "Unable to deploy Instance because allocating 1 more Instance would exceed the Account limits. Current: 2, Reserved: 0, Limit: 2. Release unused resources, then retry.",
        "errortextkey": "vm.deploy.resourcelimit.exceeded.account",
        "errormetadata": {
            "resourceRequested": "1",
            "resourceTypeDisplay": "Instance",
            "resourceOwnerType": "Account",
            "resourceAmount": "2",
            "resourceReserved": "0",
            "resourceLimit": "2"
        }
    }
}

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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 60.61538% with 128 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 17.69%. Comparing base (8e933b7) to head (d8bc647).

Files with missing lines Patch % Lines
...pache/cloudstack/context/ErrorMessageResolver.java 82.73% 13 Missing and 16 partials ⚠️
.../src/main/java/com/cloud/vm/UserVmManagerImpl.java 11.53% 21 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️
...ava/org/apache/cloudstack/context/CallContext.java 26.92% 17 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️
.../cloud/resourcelimit/ResourceLimitManagerImpl.java 0.00% 17 Missing ⚠️
...he/cloudstack/api/command/user/vm/DeployVMCmd.java 0.00% 10 Missing ⚠️
.../org/apache/cloudstack/api/ServerApiException.java 0.00% 7 Missing ⚠️
...c/main/java/com/cloud/user/AccountManagerImpl.java 50.00% 4 Missing and 3 partials ⚠️
...m/cloud/utils/exception/CloudRuntimeException.java 53.84% 6 Missing ⚠️
...rc/main/java/com/cloud/configuration/Resource.java 86.36% 3 Missing ⚠️
...loudstack/api/command/user/vm/BaseDeployVMCmd.java 0.00% 2 Missing ⚠️
... and 4 more
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@shwstppr shwstppr force-pushed the improve-error-messages branch from 86379b7 to c938bd1 Compare December 24, 2025 11:55
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This pull request has merge conflicts. Dear author, please fix the conflicts and sync your branch with the base branch.

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This pull request has merge conflicts. Dear author, please fix the conflicts and sync your branch with the base branch.

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@shwstppr a [SL] Jenkins job has been kicked to build packages. It will be bundled with KVM, XenServer and VMware SystemVM templates. I'll keep you posted as I make progress.

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Packaging result [SF]: ✔️ el8 ✔️ el9 ✔️ el10 ✔️ debian ✔️ suse15. SL-JID 16743

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This pull request has merge conflicts. Dear author, please fix the conflicts and sync your branch with the base branch.

shwstppr added 10 commits June 12, 2026 15:46
Framwork level improvements for for contextual and localized API error
messages

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Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.mrt22@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.mrt22@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.mrt22@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.mrt22@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.mrt22@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.mrt22@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.mrt22@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.mrt22@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.mrt22@gmail.com>
@shwstppr shwstppr force-pushed the improve-error-messages branch from aa5b0c4 to d8bc647 Compare June 12, 2026 11:24
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@shwstppr a [SL] Jenkins job has been kicked to build packages. It will be bundled with KVM, XenServer and VMware SystemVM templates. I'll keep you posted as I make progress.

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Packaging result [SF]: ✖️ el8 ✖️ el9 ✔️ debian ✖️ suse15. SL-JID 18238

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