sundowndev/phoneinfoga · error

result.Message

Error message

result.Message

What it means

OVH supplier's Search treats HTTP >= 400 as failure: it decodes the body into OVHAPIErrorResponse and returns the API's 'message' field as the error. The text is whatever the OVH Telecom REST API returned (auth failure, bad country code path, not found, etc.).

Source

Thrown at lib/remote/suppliers/ovh.go:68

	if countryCode == "" {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("country code +%d wasn't recognized", num.CountryCode)
	}

	// Build the request
	response, err := http.Get(fmt.Sprintf("https://api.ovh.com/1.0/telephony/number/detailedZones?country=%s", countryCode))
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	defer response.Body.Close()

	if response.StatusCode >= 400 {
		var result OVHAPIErrorResponse
		err = json.NewDecoder(response.Body).Decode(&result)
		if err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		return nil, errors.New(result.Message)
	}

	// Fill the response with the data from the JSON
	var results []OVHAPIResponseNumber

	// Use json.Decode for reading streams of JSON data
	err = json.NewDecoder(response.Body).Decode(&results)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	var foundNumber OVHAPIResponseNumber

	rt := reflect.TypeOf(results)
	if rt.Kind() == reflect.Slice && len(num.RawLocal) > 6 {
		askedNumber := num.RawLocal[0:6] + "xxxx"

		for _, result := range results {

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Solutions

  1. Read the message text: it identifies whether it's 401 auth, 404 route, or 5xx server issue
  2. Verify OVH API credentials (application key, secret, consumer key) are valid and not expired
  3. Confirm the phone number's country is supported by the OVH telecom endpoint being used
  4. Retry later if the message indicates a server-side (5xx) problem

Example fix

// before
client.Search(n)   // OVH returns 401 'Invalid signature'
// after
// regenerate OVH consumer key and ensure signature uses current time
client = ovh.NewClient(endpoint, appKey, appSecret, consumerKey)
client.Search(n)
Defensive patterns

Strategy: try-catch

Validate before calling

// ensure number's country is OVH-supported before calling
if !supportedCountries[n.CountryCode] {
    return fmt.Errorf("country %d not queryable via OVH", n.CountryCode)
}

Type guard

func isOVHAuthError(err error) bool {
    msg := err.Error()
    return strings.Contains(msg, "Invalid signature") || strings.Contains(msg, "Unauthorized")
}

Try / catch

res, err := supplier.Search(n)
if err != nil {
    if isOVHAuthError(err) {
        // refresh OVH consumer key / credentials then retry once
        return retryWithFreshCredentials(n)
    }
    return err
}

Prevention

When it happens

Trigger: The OVH API responds 4xx/5xx — invalid/expired OVH credentials, malformed search path, unsupported country code producing a bad URL, or server-side failure — and the response body carries a message field.

Common situations: OVH app key/secret/consumer key not configured or expired, querying a country endpoint that does not exist for that number, or OVH API downtime.

Related errors

AI-assisted analysis of sundowndev/phoneinfoga@55807b05b7 (2026-09-03). Data as JSON: /api/errors/9e0a5d9e7097f3cd. Report an issue: GitHub.