Gas Errors Are Unhelpful

[Luzzotica]

Right now, if you make one of the following mistakes with gas:

1. Send has no gas capability, but has other capabilities in the clist of the Pact Command
2. Sender has no funds available to pay for gas
3. Sender's account doesn't exist on the target chain
4. Too much gas requested (For example, requesting more than 150k or 180k gas)

You receive this error:

SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'V', "validation"... is not valid JSON

This error is not helpful when trying to debug the actual problem: Gas.
I spent more than a couple of hours just trying to figure out what this error meant.
Now that I know I can quickly iterate over the 4 to make sure they are all satisfied and debug quickly.

But the error needs to be more clear.

[edmundnoble]

Hi @Luzzotica, is this coming from pact-lang-api or perhaps chainweaver? If so, please move this issue to the relevant repository.

[Luzzotica]

It is not, that screenshot is from KadenaKode

The above error is the one you get from submitting a transaction to the Pact API.

[Luzzotica]

@edmundnoble Try it

[edmundnoble]

Do you see this sending the transaction or localing it?

[chessai]

@Luzzotica is this still an issue? Those links don't work for me.