[DRILL-7551] Improve Error Reporting

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Accepted
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.17.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.19.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Charles Givre
• Created: 24/Jan/20 15:43
• Updated: 10/Jun/21 06:55

Description

This Jira is to serve as a master Jira issue to improve the usability of error messages. Instead of dumping stack traces, the overall goal is to give the user something that can actually explain:

1. What went wrong
2. How to fix 

Work that relates to this, should be created as subtasks.

Sub-Tasks

• Add Helpful Error Message on Storage Plugin Creation/Update: Resolved
• Display error message when cannot enable storage plugin: Resolved
• Provide a helpful message when failure to decode plugin json: Resolved