From eb81344036b00b4984b5bfa0c9b3a1a964d003ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan-Lukas Else <mail@jlelse.de>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 11:44:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Return error message when creating entry failed

---
 main.go | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 053c7a9..b4b9ae1 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -44,9 +44,13 @@ func handleMicroPub(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	}
 	bodyString := string(bodyBytes)
 	entry, err := CreateEntry(contentType, bodyString)
-	if entry == nil {
+	if err != nil || entry == nil {
 		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusBadRequest)
-		_, _ = w.Write([]byte("There was an error creating the entry"))
+		if err != nil {
+			_, _ = w.Write([]byte(err.Error()))
+		} else {
+			_, _ = w.Write([]byte("There was an error creating the entry"))
+		}
 		return
 	}
 	if CheckAuthorization(entry, r.Header.Get("authorization")) {