Strange error with "Instance of '_SimpleUri'" for malformed import.

[rakudrama]

This error message contains Instance of '_SimpleUri'

$ out/ReleaseX64/dart-sdk/bin/dart --packages=/usr/local/google/home/sra/Dart2/sdk/.dart_tool/package_config.json ~/play1/bug1a3v.dart
Error: Invalid package URI 'package:collection':
  Invalid argument (packageUri): Package URIs must start with the package name followed by a '/': Instance of '_SimpleUri'.
../../play1/bug1a3v.dart:1:8: Error: Not found: 'package:collection'
import 'package:collection';
       ^

Source file:

import 'package:collection';
main() {}

If I escape characters in the URI (e.g. replace n with %6E), I can get an error message saying Instance of '_Uri'.

Could Error.toSafeString trust a Uri?
Or perhaps the front-end should format it, since it has the source file string, more like it reports an unparseable URI.

/cc @lrhn @johnniwinther

[lrhn]

Can't trust just any Uri since it's a non-final class.
Could perhaps trust _SimpleUri and _Uri.

I don't really want to allow-list a lot of different classes. Maybe we could have a private interface like _SafeToString that implementation classes can implement.
(With some way to avoid that UP(int, String) becomes _SafeToString.)

[johnniwinther]

cc @jensjoha

[jensjoha]

I changed the message in a2f0647 --- is that enough that we can close this issue, or are any more changes wanted?

[rakudrama]

This is fine - the FE is no longer reporting errors for import URIs that show the implementation details of core Uri.