From 8e947093b5fa1e0c81d785a55919acea8c3baa7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Diamond Lewis <findlewis@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 08:52:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] feat: Improve handling request errors with message

---
 src/RESTController.ts                |  2 +-
 src/__tests__/RESTController-test.js | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/RESTController.ts b/src/RESTController.ts
index 8185d65af..4e66140d5 100644
--- a/src/RESTController.ts
+++ b/src/RESTController.ts
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ const RESTController = {
     if (response && response.responseText) {
       try {
         const errorJSON = JSON.parse(response.responseText);
-        error = new ParseError(errorJSON.code, errorJSON.error);
+        error = new ParseError(errorJSON.code, errorJSON.error || errorJSON.message);
       } catch (_) {
         // If we fail to parse the error text, that's okay.
         error = new ParseError(
diff --git a/src/__tests__/RESTController-test.js b/src/__tests__/RESTController-test.js
index 5f9d3671b..155d56389 100644
--- a/src/__tests__/RESTController-test.js
+++ b/src/__tests__/RESTController-test.js
@@ -175,6 +175,25 @@ describe('RESTController', () => {
     });
   });
 
+  it('handles request errors with message', done => {
+    RESTController._setXHR(
+      mockXHR([
+        {
+          status: 400,
+          response: {
+            code: 1,
+            message: 'Internal server error.',
+          },
+        },
+      ])
+    );
+    RESTController.request('GET', 'classes/MyObject', {}, {}).then(null, error => {
+      expect(error.code).toBe(1);
+      expect(error.message).toBe('Internal server error.');
+      done();
+    });
+  });
+
   it('handles invalid responses', done => {
     const XHR = function () {};
     XHR.prototype = {