Improve error message handling in exceptionsrefactor/excpetion_msg

* Depending on the request Gitlab has a 'message' or 'error' attribute
in the json data, handle both
* Add some consistency by converting messages to unicode or str for
exceptions (depending on the python version)

Closes #616

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/gitlab/__init__.py b/gitlab/__init__.py
index 99ff5c5..477d564 100644
--- a/gitlab/__init__.py
+++ b/gitlab/__init__.py
@@ -490,10 +490,14 @@ class Gitlab(object):
                 time.sleep(wait_time)
                 continue
 
+            error_message = result.content
             try:
-                error_message = result.json()['message']
+                error_json = result.json()
+                for k in ('message', 'error'):
+                    if k in error_json:
+                        error_message = error_json[k]
             except (KeyError, ValueError, TypeError):
-                error_message = result.content
+                pass
 
             if result.status_code == 401:
                 raise GitlabAuthenticationError(