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 <90181748+FredLL-Avaiga@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:01:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Improve error message readability (#895)
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* Improve error message readability
resolves #560

* aurtaugraf

---------

Co-authored-by: Fred Lefévère-Laoide <Fred.Lefevere-Laoide@Taipy.io>
---
 taipy/gui/gui.py | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/taipy/gui/gui.py b/taipy/gui/gui.py
index 9c91489c21..64832e2d61 100644
--- a/taipy/gui/gui.py
+++ b/taipy/gui/gui.py
@@ -623,7 +623,23 @@ def _manage_message(self, msg_type: _WsType, message: dict) -> None:
                         self.__handle_ws_app_id(message)
                 self.__send_ack(message.get("ack_id"))
         except Exception as e:  # pragma: no cover
-            _warn(f"Decoding Message has failed: {message}", e)
+            if isinstance(e, AttributeError) and (name := message.get("name")):
+                try:
+                    names = self._get_real_var_name(name)
+                    var_name = names[0] if isinstance(names, tuple) else names
+                    var_context = names[1] if isinstance(names, tuple) else None
+                    if var_name.startswith("tpec_"):
+                        var_name = var_name[5:]
+                    if var_name.startswith("TpExPr_"):
+                        var_name = var_name[7:]
+                    _warn(
+                        f"A problem occurred while resolving variable '{var_name}'"
+                        + (f" in module '{var_context}'." if var_context else ".")
+                    )
+                except Exception as e1:
+                    _warn(f"Resolving  name '{name}' failed", e1)
+            else:
+                _warn(f"Decoding Message has failed: {message}", e)
 
     def __front_end_update(
         self,
@@ -2017,7 +2033,7 @@ def _get_page(self, page_name: str):
 
     def _bind_custom_page_variables(self, page: CustomPage, client_id: t.Optional[str]):
         """Handle the bindings of custom page variables"""
-        with self.get_flask_app().app_context() if has_app_context() else contextlib.nullcontext(): # type: ignore[attr-defined]
+        with self.get_flask_app().app_context() if has_app_context() else contextlib.nullcontext():  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
             self.__set_client_id_in_context(client_id)
             with self._set_locals_context(page._get_module_name()):
                 for k in self._get_locals_bind().keys():