From: Joshua <jroesslein@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:41:50 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: Re-enable parsing of error messages.
X-Git-Url: https://vcs.fsf.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e70a29c787794e808506d5a8de0f4b0fd8a60cea;p=tweepy.git

Re-enable parsing of error messages.
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diff --git a/tweepy/binder.py b/tweepy/binder.py
index 979b82b..e62e9c5 100644
--- a/tweepy/binder.py
+++ b/tweepy/binder.py
@@ -156,8 +156,7 @@ def bind_api(**config):
             self.api.last_response = resp
             if resp.status != 200:
                 try:
-                    #TODO: parse error message
-                    raise Exception
+                    error_msg = self.api.parser.parse_error(self, resp.read())
                 except Exception:
                     error_msg = "Twitter error response: status code = %s" % resp.status
                 raise TweepError(error_msg)
diff --git a/tweepy/parsers.py b/tweepy/parsers.py
index de6ce1b..8599501 100644
--- a/tweepy/parsers.py
+++ b/tweepy/parsers.py
@@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ class Parser(object):
         """
         raise NotImplementedError
 
+    def parse_error(self, payload):
+        """
+        Parse the error message from payload.
+        If unable to parse the message, throw an exception
+        and default error message will be used.
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
 
 class JSONParser(Parser):
 
@@ -36,6 +44,9 @@ class JSONParser(Parser):
         else:
             return json
 
+    def parse_error(self, payload):
+        return self.json_lib.loads(payload)['error']
+
 
 class ModelParser(JSONParser):