Better error message when test webhook run from the admin UI fails

[mooreds]

Better error message when test webhook run from the admin UI fails

Problem

It would be nice to get a better error message when a webhook test, run from the webhook screen in the admin UI fails.

Currently, this is the message displayed when a webhook fails:

"The webhook returned an invalid response"

This is true whether the webhook is inaccessible, returns the wrong http status code, or simply fails to run to completion.

There are no additional debugging messages in the FusionAuth UI or log files.

Solution

It'd be great to provide more information. Ideally:

• in the UI, the type of failure (http status code, timeout, etc) would be provided
• in the log file, a stack trace of the failed network call

Alternatives/workarounds

Test the webhook with curl and see how it responds.

Related

• [Category] Webhooks #1543

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Release Notes

When using the Webhook test action in the FusionAuth admin UI, additional information will now be returned if the webhook returns a non-200 status code. This should make it simpler to debug your webhook integration. Prior to this change, the response would only indicate if the response was successful or not.

[robotdan]

Internal:

• https://github.com/FusionAuth/fusionauth-app/pull/314