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Enhancement: Improve Error Handling and User Messages #3

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@Sapna700

Description

Improve error handling throughout the application to provide clearer, more helpful error messages to users and handle edge cases gracefully.

Goals

  • Add comprehensive error handling
  • Provide helpful error messages
  • Handle edge cases (empty input, invalid commands, etc.)
  • Add logging for debugging
  • Validate user inputs

Implementation Details

  • Create custom exception classes for TaskPilot
  • Add input validation
  • Improve error messages in CLI
  • Add logging module
  • Handle OpenAI API errors gracefully
  • Add try-except blocks for file operations

Example Improvements

  • Current: Invalid task number.

  • Better: Task #5 not found. You have 3 tasks. Please enter a number between 1 and 3.

  • Current: Silent failure on OpenAI error

  • Better: OpenAI API Error: Rate limit exceeded. Please try again in a few minutes.

Acceptance Criteria

  • ✅ All user inputs are validated
  • ✅ Error messages are clear and helpful
  • ✅ API errors are caught and handled
  • ✅ Logging is implemented
  • ✅ Edge cases are handled
  • ✅ Unit tests added for error handling
  • ✅ Documentation updated

Tasks

  • Create custom exception classes
  • Add input validation
  • Improve error messages in main.py
  • Add logging configuration
  • Handle OpenAI API errors
  • Add error handling tests

Related Issues

Improves overall code quality

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