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This PR adds additional error handling and formatting for invalid_input errors. See #1075 for more details.

Before:

$ hcloud server create --name "a a" --image debian-12 --type cpx11
hcloud: invalid input in field 'name' (invalid_input, ca050180d7ec9473)

After:

$ hcloud server create --name "a a" --image debian-12 --type cpx11 
hcloud: invalid input in field 'name' (invalid_input, ca050180d7ec9473)
- name: Name must be a valid hostname.

Note: As we are not inside the hcloud-go package we can't access the internal Correlation ID. Since invalid input errors are user errors we probably don't need them anyway.

Fixes #1075

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case hcloud.ErrorCodeInvalidInput:
details := hcloudErr.Details.(hcloud.ErrorDetailsInvalidInput)
var errBuilder strings.Builder
errBuilder.WriteString(hcloudErr.Message)
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If we want to include the correlation ID we can still use hcloudErr.Error() here and add the details at the end.

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errBuilder.WriteString(hcloudErr.Message)
errBuilder.WriteString(hcloudErr.Error())

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Added your suggestion. Only downside is that we can't control the formatting and have to accept the one given by hcloud-go

@phm07 phm07 merged commit 056955c into main Jun 27, 2025
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@phm07 phm07 deleted the better-error-format branch June 27, 2025 09:42
phm07 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 8, 2025
<!-- section-start changelog -->
### Features

- improve error formatting (#1080)
- add plural command aliases (#1087)
- **context**: allow renaming contexts (#1115)
- **firewall**: display applied to resources when using label selector
(#1082)
- highlight experimental commands (#1103)

### Bug Fixes

- do not indent last empty line (#1112)
- **iso**: describe command suggests location names (#1113)
- segmentation fault possible when creating servers or load balancers
(#1137)
- **primary-ip**: only suggest applicable primary IPs (#1114)

<!-- section-end changelog -->

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