Bug 1191720

Summary: JCA Resource Adapter creation error is "Unknown Error"
Product: [JBoss] JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 Reporter: anestico
Component: Web Console - UXAssignee: Romain Pelisse <rpelisse>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Pavel Jelinek <pjelinek>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact: eap-docs <eap-docs>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: brian.stansberry, cdewolf, crobson, hbraun, hpehl, jawilson, jkudrnac, pjelinek, rpelisse, tkirby
Target Milestone: CR1   
Target Release: EAP 6.4.2   
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Description anestico 2015-02-11 19:59:03 UTC 
Description of problem:
When creating a bad JCA Resource Adapter, the error message shown is "Unknown Error"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
EAP 6.4.0-ER2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Configuration -> Connector -> Resource Adapters
2. Click "Add"
3. Enter Name="anyString", Module="anyString", any option for TX; leave Archive blank.
4. Click "Save"

Actual results:
Error message is "Unknown Error"
Clicking "Messages" shows "Unexpected HTTP Response: 500" and better details

Expected results:
A better message, perhaps "Unexpected HTTP Response: 500", should be displayed.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Matt Carrano 2015-02-11 22:34:38 UTC 
Agree that there should be a better error message.  Not sure if this is just a bug or if the solution requires better error reporting from the backend.
Comment 3 Romain Pelisse 2015-04-01 02:23:41 UTC 
Here is a fix proposal for the upstream project (hal-core):

https://github.com/hal/core/pull/26
Comment 5 Harald Pehl 2015-04-01 12:01:19 UTC 
Merged in master: https://github.com/hal/core/pull/26
Comment 12 Pavel Jelinek 2015-06-19 11:33:13 UTC 
Verified for EAP 6.4.2.CP.CR1.
Comment 14 Petr Penicka 2017-01-17 10:13:04 UTC 
Retroactively bulk-closing issues from released EAP 6.4 cumulative patches.