Merge pull request #49666 from thaJeztah/legacy_errors

api, client: produce human-readable errors for unsupported API versions (< v1.24)
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Sebastiaan van Stijn
2025-04-10 12:08:56 +02:00
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4 changed files with 30 additions and 9 deletions

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@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
"github.com/docker/docker/api/server/middleware"
"github.com/docker/docker/api/server/router"
"github.com/docker/docker/api/types"
"github.com/docker/docker/api/types/versions"
"github.com/docker/docker/dockerversion"
"github.com/docker/docker/internal/otelutil"
"github.com/gorilla/mux"
@@ -62,9 +63,20 @@ func (s *Server) makeHTTPHandler(handler httputils.APIFunc, operation string) ht
if statusCode >= 500 {
log.G(ctx).Errorf("Handler for %s %s returned error: %v", r.Method, r.URL.Path, err)
}
_ = httputils.WriteJSON(w, statusCode, &types.ErrorResponse{
Message: err.Error(),
})
// While we no longer support API versions older 1.24 [api.MinSupportedAPIVersion],
// a client may try to connect using an older version and expect a plain-text error
// instead of a JSON error. This would result in an "API version too old" error
// formatted in JSON being printed as-is.
//
// Let's be nice, and return errors in plain-text to provide a more readable error
// to help the user understand the API version they're using is no longer supported.
if v := vars["version"]; v != "" && versions.LessThan(v, "1.24") {
http.Error(w, err.Error(), statusCode)
} else {
_ = httputils.WriteJSON(w, statusCode, &types.ErrorResponse{
Message: err.Error(),
})
}
}
}), operation).ServeHTTP
}