Custom binding error messages

[gosua]

Context

Currently, I am getting something like this whenever a service binding fails:

$ cf create-service-key my-service my-key
Creating service key my-key for service instance my-service as [email protected]...
The service broker returned an invalid response. Status Code: 500 Internal Server Error, Body: {"foo":"bar"}
FAILED

What I am trying to achieve

I am trying to have a custom error message on the cf-client whenever a synchronous binding fails.

Something like this for example:

$ cf create-service-key my-service my-key
Creating service key my-key for service instance my-service as [email protected]...
Service broker error: Foo
FAILED

What I tried

I was wondering what the error: "" field in SFPlan is for. In every example I can find, one can observe that it's set to "".

Setting it to error: "Foo" causes that the details about the Status Code and Body will be suppressed. However, the actual value "Foo" of error is not being printed.

$ cf create-service-key my-service my-key
Creating service key my-key for service instance my-service as [email protected]...
Service broker error:
FAILED

So my questions are...

1. Is there a possibility to have custom error messages for binding errors?
2. What is error: "" for?
3. Why does error: "Foo" suppress the usual printing of Status Code and Body?
4. Why does "Foo" not come up on the cf-client whenever specified?

[cf-gitbot]

We have created an issue in Pivotal Tracker to manage this:

https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/178987490

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[anoopjb]

This is an important finding. 👍 Unfortunately we cannot tackle this soon. 😞 Also, We are open for contributions.