Elaborate Error Message for rpcInternal #4959
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High Level Overview of Change
Validator operators are often flummoxed by the below error:
It would be helpful if the error message can instruct the users to run the rippled server in another process (
./rippled
) before executing any of the command-line client commands.Context of Change
Type of Change
.gitignore
, formatting, dropping support for older tooling)This is an elaboration of an error message.
API Impact
libxrpl
change (any change that may affectlibxrpl
or dependents oflibxrpl
)No change to API. No impact on performance either.
I manually verified (on MacOS) that the new error message is displayed, if rippled server isn't running in the background.