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Bug 39057 - VisualEditor: Error message texts when the Parsoid service is not around aren't very clear, should be improved


Summary:	VisualEditor: Error message texts when the Parsoid service is not around aren...

Status:	ASSIGNED

Product:	VisualEditor
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	MediaWiki integration (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High enhancement
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Editing team bugs – take if you're interested!

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Reported:	2012-08-05 21:10 UTC by Liangent
Modified:	2014-09-02 18:59 UTC (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

See Also:	50475 43147 63149
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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester:	---

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Description Liangent 2012-08-05 21:10:33 UTC

To reproduce, go to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor:Sandbox?veaction=edit , blank the page, save, then you get "Error saving data to server: ..." without too much explaination.

Comment 1 Trevor Parscal 2012-08-23 21:21:47 UTC

I'm not really sure what else the message should say. If we talk about parsoid, the user will be pretty confused. Are there any suggestions?

Comment 2 James Forrester 2012-08-23 22:02:55 UTC

Perhaps call it the "editing server"? As in "Sorry, we could not save your changes to the editing server" and "Sorry, we could not get a copy of the page from the editing server" etc.?

Comment 3 Gerrit Notification Bot 2014-09-02 14:57:08 UTC

Change 157775 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester:
Add debugging help to VisualEditor

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/157775

Comment 4 Gerrit Notification Bot 2014-09-02 18:16:46 UTC

Change 157775 merged by jenkins-bot:
Add debugging help to VisualEditor

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/157775

Comment 5 James Forrester 2014-09-02 18:59:31 UTC

With the above patch, the former message:

    Error loading data from server: parsoidserver-http-bad-status:
    500. Would you like to retry?

… turns into:

    Error loading data from server: parsoidserver-http-bad-status:
    500: Page Fetch failure for "BADURL": Error: getaddrinfo
    ENOTFOUND. Would you like to retry?

Which is not ideal, but at least describes things a bit.

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