Made validation messages more descriptive

plugins/catalog-backend/src/ingestion/HigherOrderOperations.ts

@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
-import { InputError } from '@backstage/backend-common';
 import { Entity, Location, LocationSpec } from '@backstage/catalog-model';
 import { v4 as uuidv4 } from 'uuid';
 import { Logger } from 'winston';
@@ -81,9 +80,7 @@ export class HigherOrderOperations implements HigherOrderOperation {
     const readerOutput = await this.locationReader.read(spec);
     if (readerOutput.errors.length) {
       const item = readerOutput.errors[0];
-      throw new InputError(
-        `Failed to read location ${item.location.type}:${item.location.target}, ${item.error}`,
-      );
+      throw item.error;
     }
 
     // TODO(freben): At this point, we could detect orphaned entities, by way

plugins/catalog-backend/src/ingestion/LocationReaders.ts

@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ export class LocationReaders implements LocationReader {
           );
         } catch (e) {
           const message = `Processor ${processor.constructor.name} threw an error while preprocessing entity ${kind}:${namespace}/${name} at ${item.location.type} ${item.location.target}, ${e}`;
-          emit(result.generalError(item.location, message));
+          emit(result.generalError(item.location, e.message));
           logger.warn(message);
           return undefined;
         }
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ export class LocationReaders implements LocationReader {
       current = next;
     } catch (e) {
       const message = `Policy check failed while analyzing entity ${kind}:${namespace}/${name} at ${item.location.type} ${item.location.target}, ${e}`;
-      emit(result.inputError(item.location, message));
+      emit(result.inputError(item.location, e.message));
       logger.warn(message);
       return undefined;
     }