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Description

Framework level improvements for for contextual and localized API error messages

Design spec: Error Message Consistency, Customization, and Localization Framework

Types of changes

  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
  • Enhancement (improves an existing feature and functionality)
  • Cleanup (Code refactoring and cleanup, that may add test cases)
  • Build/CI
  • Test (unit or integration test code)

Feature/Enhancement Scale or Bug Severity

Feature/Enhancement Scale

  • Major
  • Minor

Bug Severity

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  • Major
  • Minor
  • Trivial

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Refined error message with additional context for admin
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User facing error, with localization
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Example API response

{
    "deployvirtualmachineresponse": {
        "uuidList": [],
        "errorcode": 535,
        "cserrorcode": 9999,
        "errortext": "Unable to deploy Instance because allocating 1 more Instance would exceed the Account limits. Current: 2, Reserved: 0, Limit: 2. Release unused resources, then retry.",
        "errortextkey": "vm.deploy.resourcelimit.exceeded.account",
        "errormetadata": {
            "resourceRequested": "1",
            "resourceTypeDisplay": "Instance",
            "resourceOwnerType": "Account",
            "resourceAmount": "2",
            "resourceReserved": "0",
            "resourceLimit": "2"
        }
    }
}

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Framwork level improvements for for contextual and localized API error
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Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.mrt22@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.mrt22@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.mrt22@gmail.com>
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This pull request has merge conflicts. Dear author, please fix the conflicts and sync your branch with the base branch.

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This pull request has merge conflicts. Dear author, please fix the conflicts and sync your branch with the base branch.

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shwstppr commented Feb 9, 2026

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@shwstppr a [SL] Jenkins job has been kicked to build packages. It will be bundled with KVM, XenServer and VMware SystemVM templates. I'll keep you posted as I make progress.

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Packaging result [SF]: ✔️ el8 ✔️ el9 ✔️ el10 ✔️ debian ✔️ suse15. SL-JID 16743

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This pull request has merge conflicts. Dear author, please fix the conflicts and sync your branch with the base branch.

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