[CASSANDRA-4224] more user friendly error messages from nodetool on common connection failures

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.1
• Assignee: Noa Resare
• Reporter: Noa Resare

Authors

Noa Resare

Reviewers

Jonathan Ellis

• Created: 07/May/12 14:36
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 08/May/12 21:55

Description

(Since I actually whined about this one in my Cassandra Europe talk i might as well fix it)

Typing 'nodetool -h localhos ring' gives me 37 lines of scary looking call traces with the significant information embeded in line 11 from the end. Just because I mistyped my hostname.

I propose we catch common exceptions, print a more user friendly message to stderr and exit.