Un-friendly error message for Fail Import option in keycloak GUI

[pravsjv]

Description

Need improvement in error message in the attached screen.

Step1:
Go to Realm settings -> click Action -> choose Partial export -> change Include groups and roles, Include clients to On -> click Export button -> realm json file is generated -> OK

Step 2.
Go to Realm settings -> click Action -> choose Partial import -> click Browse button -> choose realm json file is generated in the step 1 -> Choose all the resources you want to import

Step3:
If pick ‘If a resource already exists, specify what should be done’ field = “Fail import” value -> click Import button

Actual : Display error message as below: ‘ Import failed: HTTP 500 Internal Server Error’

Discussion

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Motivation

Better excpetion/alert message gives us more clarity of what the issue instead of a generic message.

Details

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[jonkoops]

@pravsjv just to confirm, what is the Keycloak version this is happening in?

[pravsjv]

@jonkoops Keycloak 21.1.2

[jonkoops]

We no longer support that version, could you try on the latest Keycloak version and see if it works. This might be a but that is already fixed.