❓Proper error response on execute action endpoint?

[luskin]

Hello,

We have an internal, private action hub for our company that works very well. We have never been able to figure out, however, how to return a proper error so that the looker user receives the error email with context as to what was wrong. The error email always is as follows:

The scheduled job "Custom Action"[#####] failed for . Please visit your content to view and resolve the error, or contact your Looker administrator if you need further assistance.

Error: An error occurred for action test-action-integration://11::test_failure. The action could not be executed.

This is the error we are returning with a 400 back to looker:

{
    "looker": {
        "success": false,
        "message": "Failed to update custom action",
        "validation_errors": {
            "test_field": "This is a test field error"
        }
    }
}

We are referencing the ActionResponse classes toJson schema here

Any help would be greatly appreciated. It's very difficult to scale our team using looker actions when an engineer has to hop into Datadog every time a team member gets one of these ambiguous errors.

[luskin]

Additionally, we have tried returning the JSON with both a 200 and a 400

[luskin]

Is anybody at Looker maintaining the Action Hub?

[phillipperalez]

Yes I still am maintaining the Action Hub, sorry I haven't been posting on the issues lately

[phillipperalez]

So the email was a choice made a long time ago in favor of only showing the error in the scheduler history. It was a choice but we could open a ticket internally to start another discussion about it since it has been so long

[luskin]

It would be great to be able to pass a contextual error back to the user who scheduled the action

[jakala-hjorda]

Yes, I am having the same issue, it would be great to have a proper description of the error via e-mail. Any solution to this?