From 0b7e29e5d0602f64be0e5db6748ca3811b9fbbcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nic D <n_drolet@hotmail.ca>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:08:04 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix(chatbot): made error handling more explicit in replies.

---
 quasar.config.ts            | 8 ++++++--
 src/i18n/en-ca/index.ts     | 8 +++++---
 src/i18n/fr-ca/index.ts     | 8 +++++---
 src/stores/chatbot-store.ts | 7 ++++---
 4 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/quasar.config.ts b/quasar.config.ts
index 8e9ee05..205b2f3 100644
--- a/quasar.config.ts
+++ b/quasar.config.ts
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ export default defineConfig((ctx) => {
     build: {
       target: {
         browser: [ 'es2022', 'firefox115', 'chrome115', 'safari14' ],
-        node: 'node20'
+        node: 'node20',
       },
 
       typescript: {
@@ -66,7 +66,11 @@ export default defineConfig((ctx) => {
       // polyfillModulePreload: true,
       // distDir
 
-      // extendViteConf (viteConf) {},
+      extendViteConf: (_config) => ({ 
+        optimizeDeps: {
+          exclude: ['tesseract.js']
+        } 
+      }),
       // viteVuePluginOptions: {},
       
       vitePlugins: [
diff --git a/src/i18n/en-ca/index.ts b/src/i18n/en-ca/index.ts
index 4f4be80..9af138a 100644
--- a/src/i18n/en-ca/index.ts
+++ b/src/i18n/en-ca/index.ts
@@ -5,9 +5,11 @@ export default {
         chat_placeholder: "Enter a Message",
         chat_thinking: "Thinking...",
         error: {
-            NO_REPLY_RECEIVED: "encountered an error while waiting for chatbot to reply",
-            SEND_MESSAGE_FAILED: "unable to send message to chatbot",
-            GENERIC_RESPONSE_ERROR: "An error was encountered while waiting for the chatbot to reply, please try again.",
+            NO_REPLY_RECEIVED: "FRONTEND ERROR: the backend did not include a message text in the response",
+            NO_DATA_RECEIVED: "BACKEND ERROR: the backend did not receive any data from the AI agent",
+            NO_OUTPUT_RECEIVED: "BACKEND ERROR: the backend received data, but no output, from the AI agent",
+            SEND_MESSAGE_FAILED: "FRONTEND ERROR: Your message could not send or was timed out",
+            GENERIC_RESPONSE_ERROR: "BACKEND ERROR: An unexpected error occured while waiting for the backend to respond",
         },
     },
 
diff --git a/src/i18n/fr-ca/index.ts b/src/i18n/fr-ca/index.ts
index 0252bb6..a76fdd9 100644
--- a/src/i18n/fr-ca/index.ts
+++ b/src/i18n/fr-ca/index.ts
@@ -5,9 +5,11 @@ export default {
         chat_placeholder: "Entrez un Message",
         chat_thinking: "Réflexion en cours...",
         error: {
-            NO_REPLY_RECEIVED: "Une erreur est survenu lors de la réception de la réponse du chatbot",
-            SEND_MESSAGE_FAILED: "Une erreur est survenue lors de l'envoi de votre message",
-            GENERIC_RESPONSE_ERROR: "Le chatbot ne réponds pas pour le moment, veuillez réessayer.",
+            NO_REPLY_RECEIVED: "ERREUR FRONTEND: Le frontend n'a pas recu de message de l'IA dans la réponse du backend",
+            NO_DATA_RECEIVED: "ERREUR BACKEND: L'agent IA n'a pas inclu de data dans sa réponse au backend",
+            NO_OUTPUT_RECEIVED: "ERREUR BACKEND: L'agent IA a inclu du data, mais pas de output, dans sa réponse au backend",
+            SEND_MESSAGE_FAILED: "ERREUR FRONTEND: Une erreur est survenue lors de l'envoi de votre message, ou la connexion a été perdu",
+            GENERIC_RESPONSE_ERROR: "ERREUR BACKEND: Une erreur est survenu lors de la réception de la réponse du AI",
         },
     },
 
diff --git a/src/stores/chatbot-store.ts b/src/stores/chatbot-store.ts
index b0fc645..54600f9 100644
--- a/src/stores/chatbot-store.ts
+++ b/src/stores/chatbot-store.ts
@@ -16,17 +16,18 @@ export const useChatbotStore = defineStore("chatbot", () => {
 
         try {
             const chatbot_response = await chatbotService.sendChatMessage(user_message, current_page_context.value);
-            if (chatbot_response) {
+
+            if (chatbot_response.text) {
                 last_chatbot_message.text = chatbot_response.text;
                 last_chatbot_message.isThinking = false;
             } else {
                 last_chatbot_message.text = 'chatbot.error.NO_REPLY_RECEIVED';
                 last_chatbot_message.isThinking = false;
             }
-        }
-        catch (error) {
+        } catch (error) {
             last_chatbot_message.text = 'chatbot.error.SEND_MESSAGE_FAILED';
             last_chatbot_message.isThinking = false;
+            
             console.error('error sending message: ', error);
         }
     };