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

[dandv]

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,

• the collection/document/subcollection//... path sequence wasn't respected
• Firestore was not properly set up from the console
• the (default) database was deleted
• the custom database ID wasn't specified
• a cloud function was idle for a long time

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?

[dconeybe]

Assigning @wu-hui as I don't have any special knowledge of this issue, other than having looked into one of the "NOT FOUND" issues linked to.

[mrmuffyman]

Thanks a ton @dandv for bringing this up. As a new user, I was stuck for 3 hours trying to figure out this error message. Tons of confusing information on the web on how to just get a simple db write to work but turns out I just wasn't supposed to rename my database on setup.