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Bad format doesn't contain a lot of info

Open labsin opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Describe the bug If a conversion in the constructor of a datatype throws an error, only a very generic error is available:

Option 'some option' is defined with a bad format.

To Reproduce

  • Have a property of type DirectoryInfo
  • Supply bad character (mostly happens by accident)
  • Get general error

Expected behavior There are some options:

  1. Add the used parameter to the BadFormatConversionError type so the bad formatted input string can be shown in the custom help callback.
  2. Catch TargetInvocationException and add the inner exception to the BadFormatConversionError
  3. Show a message with the message of the exception, especially when the exception is an ArgumentException. It would then read something like 'Option 'i, input' is defined with "Invalid;Path" which is a bad format: Illegal characters in path.'

labsin avatar Mar 01 '24 12:03 labsin

Relates to https://github.com/commandlineparser/commandline/issues/113

labsin avatar Mar 01 '24 12:03 labsin

BTW, the initial problem was https://github.com/commandlineparser/commandline/issues/226, which I had to debug to see the actual thing that went wrong.

labsin avatar Mar 01 '24 12:03 labsin