Validation errors not shown when adding a new child epic

When adding a new epic as a child to a work item epic that is not valid, the action is unsuccessful but no error is shown

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added to epic &14324 (closed)

mentioned in issue #472097 (closed)

mentioned in merge request !159217 (merged)

FYI @ramistry in case this has an impact on your work for the pagination issue.

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@egrieff I'm taking a look at this and I'm a bit confused about the errors we're getting. I'm getting a bit outside the scope of this issue, we'll be displaying validation errors just fine but I'm seeing a different error:

The API won't let me create a new epic in an epic. And also, why would you get a limit error when you only have 3 children? I think these are separate backend issue but I thought I would mention it here.

@fguibert Thanks for verifying! You should get the error Epic type is not available for the given group when the FF work_item_epics is disabled, but that error is not displayed correctly either so that's goo to know.

And also, why would you get a limit error when you only have 3 children? I

Sorry for the confusion, I just changed the limit for testing so I could trigger an error without needing so many epics. I'm able to see the errors when trying your fix though

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mentioned in merge request !159366 (merged)

Update: Fix is in review.

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Verified in production. Closing.

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