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User-friendly error messages for Kratos API endpoint 400 responses
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Describe the bug
When calling the Kratos adminCreateIdentity endpoint, the 400 response error messages are not quite user-readable.
For example, having an email in the identity schema, mark is required and filling it as an empty string produces the following response:
code: 400
message: "The request was malformed or contained invalid parameters"
reason: "I[#/traits/email] S[#/properties/traits/properties/email/format] "" is not valid "email""
request: "1c475a8b6751ddc7ee6ced7232a13449"
Also, see this conversation on Slack: https://ory-community.slack.com/archives/C02PSRUGUAV/p1660570115446989
Version
Helm chart 0.23.1 and Kratos v0.9.0-alpha.3
On which operating system are you observing this issue?
Linux
In which environment are you deploying?
Kubernetes with Helm
Additional Context
A proposed solution is to re-use the code that creates the error messages for other flows and insert it for all relevant Kratos endpoints. For example, when using the kratos-self-service-UI-react-next, the <Flow/> component already receives and presents these messages user-friendly.
