Github user tillrohrmann commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6222#discussion_r199170250 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/rest/handler/job/JobSubmitHandler.java --- @@ -66,6 +67,9 @@ public JobSubmitHandler( } return gateway.submitJob(jobGraph, timeout) - .thenApply(ack -> new JobSubmitResponseBody("/jobs/" + jobGraph.getJobID())); + .thenApply(ack -> new JobSubmitResponseBody("/jobs/" + jobGraph.getJobID())) + .exceptionally(exception -> { + throw new CompletionException(new RestHandlerException("Job submission failed.", HttpResponseStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, exception)); --- End diff -- Maybe we could add the `exception.getMessage` to the `message` of the `RestHandlerException`. Otherwise the user will only see `"Job submission failed."` in the `ErrorResponseBody`. With the change it could be `"Job submission failed: Failure cause"`
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