Improve error messages on failures

getsentry · May 27, 2016 · 07d0f11 · 07d0f11
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commit 07d0f11
Showing 1 changed file with 6 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/sentry_jira/forms.py b/sentry_jira/forms.py
@@ -186,9 +186,13 @@ def clean(self):
                                           " logins." % e.status_code)
                 else:
                     logging.exception(e)
-                    raise ValidationError("Unable to connect to JIRA: Bad Response")
+                    raise ValidationError("Unable to connect to JIRA: the remote "
+                                          "server returned an unhandled %s status "
+                                          " code" % e.status_code)
             if not sut_response.json:
-                raise ValidationError("Unable to connect to JIRA: Bad Response")
+                raise ValidationError("Unable to connect to JIRA: "
+                                      "the response did not contain valid JSON, did "
+                                      "you enter the correct instance URL?")
 
         return cd