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fix: include message from restate in admin API errors#100

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@lukebond lukebond commented Mar 17, 2026

if you registered a deployment that included breaking changes, then the admin API call would fail (because the operator doesn't pass --force or --breaking), however the error message was unclear because it didn't include the helpful message returned from restate, and it was only discoverable in the status subresource, it wasn't logged.

  • added a new error variant for admin API rejections
  • added a helper that extracts the message out of the response body
  • use that helper for all admin API call sites
  • log the error when it happens and emit a k8s event

this scenario is now much easier to discover; by looking at the logs, at describe or get events.

i tested this by spinning up a kind cluster and registering a service that would return an error from the admin API. it emitted the event and logged it.

we really need better tests, so i filed #101.

if you registered a deployment that included breaking changes, then the
admin API call would fail (because the operator doesn't pass --force or
--breaking), however the error message was unclear because it didn't
include the helpful message returned from restate, and it was only
discoverable in the status subresource, it wasn't logged.

- added a new error variant for admin API rejections
- added a helper that extracts the message out of the response body
- use that helper for all admin API call sites
- log the error when it happens and emit a k8s event

this scenario is now much easier to discover; by looking at the logs, at
`describe` or `get events`.
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