CDRIVER-6019 Improve error messages from Windows APIs #2020
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Summary
Improve error messages from Windows APIs
Patch build: https://spruce.mongodb.com/version/682dfd72aeaf7a000773acc6
Background
This PR intends to consistently use
FormatMessage
to get an error message from a Windows error code.Using the return value from
InitializeSecurityContext
improves an error message observed when investigating TLS handshake failure as part of CDRIVER-6000:Before:
After:
The Windows error types used in libmongoc (
SECURITY_STATUS
,DNS_STATUS
, and return ofGetLastError()
) all appear accepted in FormatMessage (expects a DWORD). A test is added with a sample of error codes to check the messages.FormatMessageA
is used rather thanFormatMessage
/FormatMessageW
to ensure the resulting error message consists of single-byte characters. The C driver does not test (and appears broken) when building with Unicode encoding on Windows: CDRIVER-6015.