From 3e0cd17e871ebef8febde88f69d598d87dfcb5f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mario Majcica <mario@majcica.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 21:01:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Accept error message in body as a string

---
 lib/RestClient.ts | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/RestClient.ts b/lib/RestClient.ts
index eca3a88..21f9b89 100644
--- a/lib/RestClient.ts
+++ b/lib/RestClient.ts
@@ -210,10 +210,11 @@ export class RestClient {
             }
 
             let obj: any;
+            let contents: string;
 
             // get the result from the body
             try {
-                let contents: string = await res.readBody();
+                contents = await res.readBody();
                 if (contents && contents.length > 0) {
                     if (options && options.deserializeDates) {
                         obj = JSON.parse(contents, RestClient.dateTimeDeserializer);
@@ -239,6 +240,9 @@ export class RestClient {
                 // if exception/error in body, attempt to get better error
                 if (obj && obj.message) {
                     msg = obj.message;
+                } else if (contents && contents.length > 0) {
+                    // it may be the case that the exception is in the body message as string
+                    msg = contents;
                 } else {
                     msg = "Failed request: (" + statusCode + ")";
                 }