[Dhvanit41]

Related issue: Resolves #50846

Uploading a custom package with an unsupported extension shows an error toast whose expandable "Raw response" panel contains nothing but {}.

Root cause

ToastCard decides whether to render the panel from the raw prop:

const hasDetail = detail !== undefined;

Callers pass a caught error straight through as response — notify.error(${e}, { response: e }). An Error's own properties (message, stack) are non-enumerable, so JSON.stringify returns "{}" without throwing, which means the existing catch fallback never runs. The panel then opens on an empty object.

The issue points at PackageForm.tsx, but that's one instance of a general problem: roughly 177 call sites across the frontend pass a caught error as response, so any of them can produce this. Fixing it at the single reported call site would leave the rest.

Changes

In frontend/components/ToastNotification/ToastCard.tsx, derive hasDetail from the serialized payload rather than the raw value, and treat payloads that carry nothing as no payload:

const EMPTY_DETAIL_TEXT = ["", "{}", "[]", "null", '""'];
...
const hasDetail = !EMPTY_DETAIL_TEXT.includes(detailText);

hasDetail already gates the chevron, the panel, and the card's --open class, so the toggle disappears entirely instead of revealing an empty block. This matches the first option in the issue: the message text already carries the error, so there's nothing to disclose.

Payloads with real content are untouched. Verified against the actual serializer:

payload	JSON.stringify(x, null, 2)	panel
new Error("unsupported file extension: dmg")	"{}"	hidden
{} / [] / null / ""	"{}" / "[]" / "null" / '""'	hidden
{ status: 422 }	"{\n \"status\": 422\n}"	shown
{ message: "internal" }	"{\n \"message\": \"internal\"\n}"	shown

Checklist for submitter

• Changes file added for user-visible changes in changes/, orbit/changes/ or ee/fleetd-chrome/changes.
  See Changes files for more information.

Testing

• Added/updated automated tests

Added ToastCard.tests.tsx covering both directions:

• The toggle is hidden for an Error, {}, [], null, "", and for no payload at all.
• The toggle is still shown, and still reveals the payload, when the detail has real content.

All five suppression cases were confirmed to fail against the unfixed component, and the three "still shows" cases pass either way — they exist to catch the fix over-suppressing real API responses. The existing ToastNotification.tests.tsx suite passes unchanged, so the notify API's response resolution is unaffected. eslint, prettier, and tsc --noEmit are clean.

• QA'd all new/changed functionality manually

Not done. Verified through the tests above and by checking the serializer's real output for each payload shape rather than assuming it.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Toast notifications no longer show an expandable details panel when the payload is empty, missing, or has no meaningful JSON representation.
  • Non-serializable details are handled more gracefully while preserving fallback display for serialization errors.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for hidden detail panels, visible details, and reveal behavior across supported payload types.

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Walkthrough

ToastCard now serializes toast details before deciding whether to render the expandable panel. It suppresses the panel for empty strings, empty objects, empty arrays, null, and serialized Error objects. Tests cover unsupported and missing payloads, empty payloads, populated payloads, and interactive detail reveal behavior.

Possibly related PRs

• fleetdm/fleet#50449: Updates ToastCard.tsx for related toast-detail behavior.

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to cb691

This localized change hides the empty toast details panel while preserving panels with meaningful content; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary change: hiding the toast details panel when its payload is empty.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description identifies issue #50846, explains the root cause, documents the fix, and lists automated tests; manual QA remains unchecked.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes hide empty toast details, preserve meaningful payloads, and directly address the behavior described in issue #50846.
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[Dhvanit41]

@MagnusHJensen this one is ready whenever you get sometime.

[RachelElysia]

Thanks for jumping on this @Dhvanit41 !

I'm going to merge this in since it's best not to render an empty response, but I got a followup to fix the instance (as well as 2 other instances) where there's empty responses when the error response should be plumbed through.