The service startup error could not be printed correctly about kratos

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The issue you're experiencing seems to be related to the default error decoder in Kratos. The DefaultErrorDecoder function is responsible for decoding HTTP errors. If the HTTP status code is between 200 and 299, it returns nil, indicating no error. However, for other status codes, it attempts to read the response body and unmarshal it into an errors.Error type. If this process fails, it returns a new error with the status code and an unknown reason.

The problem arises when the context is canceled. In such cases, the HTTP client's Do method returns an error, which is then passed to the DefaultErrorDecoder. However, since the context is canceled, the response is nil, and the decoder cannot read the body or unmarshal it into an errors.Error type. As a result, it returns a new error with the status code and an unknown reason, which is why you're seeing "ctx canceled" instead of the actual error description.

To resolve this issue, you can create a custom error decoder that handles context cancellation errors separately. Here's an example:

func CustomErrorDecoder(_ context.Context, res *http.Response) error {
    if res.StatusCode >= 200 && res.StatusCode <= 299 {
        return nil
    }
    if res == nil {
        return errors.New("Context was canceled")
    }
    defer res.Body.Close()
    data, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
    if err == nil {
        e := new(errors.Error)
        if err = CodecForResponse(res).Unmarshal(data, e); err == nil {
            e.Code = int32(res.StatusCode)
            return e
        }
    }
    return errors.Newf(res.StatusCode, errors.UnknownReason, "").WithCause(err)
}

Then, when creating your client, use the WithErrorDecoder option to use your custom error decoder:

client, err := NewClient(ctx, WithErrorDecoder(CustomErrorDecoder))

This way, when the context is canceled, your custom error decoder will return a more descriptive error message. You can find more information about this in the transport/http/client.go file in the Kratos repository.

Sources

• transport/http/client.go