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Make the "5 NOT FOUND" / "Exception occurred in retry method that was not classified as transient" error message specific and useful

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Since Oct 21, 2024.

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I'm raising this specific issue because this "5 NOT FOUND" error is uncharacteristically (for a Google API) unhelpful, confusing and cryptic.

When it comes from using Firestore, it can mean that,

Also, its note field in my case was set to "Exception occurred in retry method that was not classified as transient", but the FirebaseFirestoreError type doesn't include a .note field. (import { FirebaseFirestoreError } from 'firebase-admin/firestore';). There was also an empty details field that was not defined in FirebaseFirestoreError.

@dconeybe any chance for this error message to received some TLC?

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