improve logging

public/css/style.css

@@ -5053,7 +5053,11 @@ body {
   color: var(--color);
   max-height: 26em;
   overflow: auto;
-  white-space: pre;
+  /* pre-wrap honors leading-space indentation (so aligned columns survive)
+     while still wrapping long string values; overflow-wrap forces the break
+     mid-word for unbroken URLs / encoded JSON detail strings. */
+  white-space: pre-wrap;
+  overflow-wrap: anywhere;
   margin: 0;
   box-shadow: var(--card-shadow);
 }

public/script/admin.js

@@ -916,7 +916,10 @@ angular
       // Decorate each entry once with derived display fields. Pre-computing
       // avoids returning new arrays from template functions each digest
       // cycle (which trips Angular's $rootScope:infdig).
-      const errorKeyRe = /^[a-z][a-z0-9]*(?:_[a-z0-9]+)+$/;
+      // snake_case-ish identifier looking like an error key. Accepts both
+      // pure lowercase ("repo_not_found") and the mixed-case style this
+      // codebase uses ("repoId_already_used", "invalid_repoId").
+      const errorKeyRe = /^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*(?:_[a-zA-Z0-9]+)+$/;
       function bucketFor(detail, level) {
         const s =
           (detail && (detail.httpStatus || detail.status)) || null;
@@ -971,12 +974,26 @@ angular
         };
         push("name", detail && detail.name);
         push("code", entry.displayMessage || (detail && detail.message));
-        // "kind" is a friendly grouping; only emit if we know the bucket.
         if (entry._bucket) push("kind", entry._bucket);
         push("httpStatus", detail && detail.httpStatus);
         if (detail && detail.status && !(detail.httpStatus)) push("status", detail.status);
         push("module", entry.module);
-        push("detail", detail && detail.detail);
+        // AnonymousError.detail() can return a JSON-encoded string for
+        // structured payloads (e.g. {"repoId":"...","terms":[],"fullName":...}).
+        // Try to parse it so the renderer can pretty-print it multi-line
+        // instead of dumping an unreadable escape-soup blob.
+        let detailValue = detail && detail.detail;
+        if (typeof detailValue === "string") {
+          const trimmed = detailValue.trim();
+          if (trimmed[0] === "{" || trimmed[0] === "[") {
+            try {
+              detailValue = JSON.parse(detailValue);
+            } catch {
+              /* leave as string */
+            }
+          }
+        }
+        push("detail", detailValue);
         push("url", entry._url);
         push("ts", entry.ts);
         if (!fields.length) return JSON.stringify(entry, null, 2);
@@ -984,11 +1001,23 @@ angular
         const lines = ["{"];
         fields.forEach(([k, v], i) => {
           const key = `"${k}":`.padEnd(keyW + 3, " ");
-          const val = typeof v === "number" || typeof v === "boolean"
+          const prefix = `  ${key} `;
-            ? String(v)
-            : JSON.stringify(v);
           const comma = i < fields.length - 1 ? "," : "";
-          lines.push(`  ${key} ${val}${comma}`);
+          let val;
+          if (v && typeof v === "object") {
+            // Indent continuation lines under the value column so the nested
+            // object reads like a column instead of breaking flow.
+            const pad = " ".repeat(prefix.length);
+            val = JSON.stringify(v, null, 2)
+              .split("\n")
+              .map((ln, idx) => (idx === 0 ? ln : pad + ln))
+              .join("\n");
+          } else if (typeof v === "number" || typeof v === "boolean") {
+            val = String(v);
+          } else {
+            val = JSON.stringify(v);
+          }
+          lines.push(`${prefix}${val}${comma}`);
         });
         lines.push("}");
         return lines.join("\n");

src/core/AnonymizedFile.ts

@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ export default class AnonymizedFile {
     if (this._file?.size && this._file?.size > config.MAX_FILE_SIZE) {
       throw new AnonymousError("file_too_big", {
         object: this,
-        httpStatus: 403,
+        httpStatus: 413,
       });
     }
     const content = await this.repository.source?.getFileContent(this);

src/core/AnonymousError.ts

@@ -59,6 +59,30 @@ export default class AnonymousError extends CustomError {
         return `GHDownload ${this.value.data.repoId}`;
       }
       if (typeof this.value === "string") return this.value;
+      // For plain objects (typically request bodies passed in by route
+      // handlers), pull out the diagnostic fingerprint instead of dumping
+      // the entire body. Routes throw with `object: req.body`, which used
+      // to bloat the log with the full JSON of options/source/etc — none
+      // of which helps an operator triage the failure.
+      if (typeof this.value === "object") {
+        const v = this.value as Record<string, unknown>;
+        const fingerprint: string[] = [];
+        if (typeof v.repoId === "string") fingerprint.push(`repoId=${v.repoId}`);
+        if (typeof v.fullName === "string") fingerprint.push(`fullName=${v.fullName}`);
+        if (typeof v.repositoryFullName === "string")
+          fingerprint.push(`pr=${v.repositoryFullName}`);
+        if (typeof v.pullRequestId === "string" || typeof v.pullRequestId === "number")
+          fingerprint.push(`prId=${v.pullRequestId}`);
+        if (typeof v.gistId === "string") fingerprint.push(`gistId=${v.gistId}`);
+        if (typeof v.username === "string") fingerprint.push(`user=${v.username}`);
+        if (typeof v.conferenceID === "string")
+          fingerprint.push(`conference=${v.conferenceID}`);
+        if (fingerprint.length) return fingerprint.join(" ");
+        // Fall back to a bounded, readable preview rather than a giant
+        // escaped JSON blob. Keep it small so the rendered card stays tidy.
+        const json = JSON.stringify(this.value);
+        return json.length > 120 ? json.slice(0, 117) + "…" : json;
+      }
       return JSON.stringify(this.value);
     } catch {
       return String(this.value);

src/core/Gist.ts

@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ export default class Gist {
     ) {
       throw new AnonymousError("gist_not_ready", {
         object: this,
-        httpStatus: 503,
+        httpStatus: 425,
       });
     }
   }

src/core/PullRequest.ts

@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ export default class PullRequest {
     ) {
       throw new AnonymousError("pull_request_not_ready", {
         object: this,
-        httpStatus: 503,
+        httpStatus: 425,
       });
     }
   }

src/core/Repository.ts

@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ export default class Repository {
     ) {
       throw new AnonymousError("repository_not_ready", {
         object: this,
-        httpStatus: 503,
+        httpStatus: 425,
       });
     }
   }

src/core/source/GitHubRepository.ts

@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ export class GitHubRepository {
         }
       } catch (error) {
         throw new AnonymousError("repo_not_found", {
-          httpStatus: (error as { status?: number }).status,
+          httpStatus: (error as { status?: number }).status || 404,
           cause: error as Error,
           object: this,
         });

src/core/source/GitHubStream.ts

@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ export default class GitHubStream extends GitHubBase {
       }
       logger.warn("getTree failed", serializeError(error));
       throw new AnonymousError("repo_not_found", {
-        httpStatus: status || 500,
+        httpStatus: status || 404,
         object: this.data,
         cause: error as Error,
       });

src/server/routes/file.ts

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ router.get(
       if (!(await repo.isReady())) {
         throw new AnonymousError("repository_not_ready", {
           object: repo,
-          httpStatus: 503,
+          httpStatus: 425,
         });
       }
       const f = new AnonymizedFile({

src/server/routes/gist-public.ts

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ router.get(
             );
           }
           throw new AnonymousError("gist_not_ready", {
-            httpStatus: 404,
+            httpStatus: 425,
             object: gist,
           });
         }

src/server/routes/repository-public.ts

@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ router.get(
             );
           }
           throw new AnonymousError("repository_not_ready", {
-            httpStatus: 404,
+            httpStatus: 425,
             object: repo,
           });
         }

src/server/routes/route-utils.ts

@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ export function isOwnerCoauthorOrAdmin(repo: Repository, user: User) {
   if (repo.owner.id === user.model.id) return;
   if (isCoauthor(repo, user)) return;
   throw new AnonymousError("not_authorized", {
-    httpStatus: 401,
+    httpStatus: 403,
   });
 }