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
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Current: Invalid task number.
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Better: Task #5 not found. You have 3 tasks. Please enter a number between 1 and 3.
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Current: Silent failure on OpenAI error
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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
Related Issues
Improves overall code quality
Description
Improve error handling throughout the application to provide clearer, more helpful error messages to users and handle edge cases gracefully.
Goals
Implementation Details
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
Tasks
Related Issues
Improves overall code quality