{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Arabidopsis-Information-Portal/adama/issues/93","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Arabidopsis-Information-Portal/adama/issues/93/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Arabidopsis-Information-Portal/adama/issues/93/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Arabidopsis-Information-Portal/adama/issues/93/events","html_url":"https://github.com/Arabidopsis-Information-Portal/adama/issues/93","id":118649947,"number":93,"title":"Better error message for malformed metadata.yml ","user":{"login":"timeu","id":374296,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/374296?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/timeu","html_url":"https://github.com/timeu","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timeu/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timeu/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timeu/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timeu/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timeu/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timeu/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timeu/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timeu/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timeu/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-11-24T16:35:45Z","updated_at":"2015-11-24T16:45:55Z","closed_at":null,"body":"When trying to submit a service that contains a malformed metadata.yml file (i.e. missing colon between key, value pairs) a generic error message is displayed, that makes it hard to find the issue: \r\n\r\n```json\r\n{\r\n  \"exception\": \"ScannerError\",\r\n  \"message\": \"\",\r\n  \"status\": \"error\",\r\n  \"worker_trace\": null\r\n}\r\n```\r\n\r\nAlthough the issue can be easily found by an external yml parser/validator it would be a nice enhancement if Adama would return a more specific error. Something along these lines: \r\n\r\n`(<unknown>): could not find expected ':' while scanning a simple key at line 15 column 9` "},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Arabidopsis-Information-Portal/adama/issues/comments/159332904","html_url":"https://github.com/Arabidopsis-Information-Portal/adama/issues/93#issuecomment-159332904","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Arabidopsis-Information-Portal/adama/issues/93","id":159332904,"user":{"login":"eriksf","id":5713295,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5713295?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/eriksf","html_url":"https://github.com/eriksf","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eriksf/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eriksf/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eriksf/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eriksf/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eriksf/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eriksf/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eriksf/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eriksf/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eriksf/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-11-24T16:45:55Z","updated_at":"2015-11-24T16:45:55Z","body":"@waltermoreira, this would be a nice feature. A couple of our summer interns were stumped by this issue and an error message that returned a parser/validator message would have help them greatly."}}