(improvement, fern): Add better error for invalid generators.yml #3521
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This improves the
fern
compiler's error reporting when the user'sgenerators.yml
is invalid. For example, suppose you have the following configuration with duplicate map keys (i.e.publish
):The CLI would previously fail with an unhelpful error message like the following:
This was because we would ignore any errors thrown by the
generators.yml
, even if the file existed. This refactors the approach so that we actually act upon the errors thrown by thegenerators.yml
parser and surface it to the user. Now, the user will see the following: