refactor: Change exception handling in cli

src/twyn/base/exceptions.py

@@ -6,16 +6,33 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger("twyn.errors")
 
 
-class TwynError(click.ClickException):
+class TwynError(Exception):
+    """
+    Base exception from where all application errors will inherit.
+
+    Provides a default message field, that subclasses will override to provide more information in case it is not provided during the exception handling.
+    """
+
     message = ""
 
     def __init__(self, message: str = "") -> None:
         super().__init__(message or self.message)
 
+
+class CliError(click.ClickException):
+    """Error that will populate application errors to stdout. It does not inherit from `TwynError`."""
+
+    message = "CLI error"
+
+    def __init__(self, message: str = "") -> None:
+        super().__init__(message)
+
     def show(self, file: Optional[IO[Any]] = None) -> None:
         logger.debug(self.format_message(), exc_info=True)
         logger.error(self.format_message(), exc_info=False)
 
 
 class PackageNormalizingError(TwynError):
     """Exception for when it is not possible to normalize a package name."""
+
+    message = "Failed to normalize pacakges."

src/twyn/cli.py

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
     SELECTOR_METHOD_MAPPING,
     AvailableLoggingLevels,
 )
+from twyn.base.exceptions import CliError, TwynError
 from twyn.config.config_handler import ConfigHandler
 from twyn.file_handler.file_handler import FileHandler
 from twyn.main import check_dependencies
@@ -104,14 +105,19 @@ def run(
     if dependency_file and not any(dependency_file.endswith(key) for key in DEPENDENCY_FILE_MAPPING):
         raise click.UsageError("Dependency file name not supported.", ctx=click.get_current_context())
 
-    errors = check_dependencies(
-        dependencies=set(dependency) or None,
-        config_file=config,
-        dependency_file=dependency_file,
-        selector_method=selector_method,
-        verbosity=verbosity,
-        use_cache=not no_cache,
-    )
+    try:
+        errors = check_dependencies(
+            dependencies=set(dependency) or None,
+            config_file=config,
+            dependency_file=dependency_file,
+            selector_method=selector_method,
+            verbosity=verbosity,
+            use_cache=not no_cache,
+        )
+    except TwynError as e:
+        raise CliError(e.message) from e
+    except Exception as e:
+        raise CliError("Unhandled exception occured.") from e
 
     if errors:
         for possible_typosquats in errors:

src/twyn/config/exceptions.py

@@ -2,23 +2,37 @@
 
 
 class TOMLError(TwynError):
+    """TOML exception class."""
+
+    message = "TOML parsing error"
+
     def __init__(self, message: str):
         super().__init__(message)
 
 
-class AllowlistError(TwynError):
-    def __init__(self, package_name: str = ""):
+class BaseAllowlistError(TwynError):
+    """Base `allowlist` exception."""
+
+    message = "Allowlist error"
+
+    def __init__(self, package_name: str = "") -> None:
         message = self.message.format(package_name) if package_name else self.message
         super().__init__(message)
 
 
-class AllowlistPackageAlreadyExistsError(AllowlistError):
+class AllowlistPackageAlreadyExistsError(BaseAllowlistError):
+    """Exception class for when a package already exists in the allowlist."""
+
     message = "Package '{}' is already present in the allowlist. Skipping."
 
 
-class AllowlistPackageDoesNotExistError(AllowlistError):
+class AllowlistPackageDoesNotExistError(BaseAllowlistError):
+    """Exception class for when it is not possible to locate the desired pacakge in the allowlist."""
+
     message = "Package '{}' is not present in the allowlist. Skipping."
 
 
 class InvalidSelectorMethodError(TwynError):
     """Exception for when an invalid selector method has been specified."""
+
+    message = "Invalid `Selector` was provided."

src/twyn/dependency_parser/exceptions.py

@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@
 
 
 class NoMatchingParserError(TwynError):
+    """Exception raised when no suitable dependency file parser can be automatically determined."""
+
     message = "Could not assign a dependency file parser. Please specify it with --dependency-file"
 
 
 class MultipleParsersError(TwynError):
+    """Exception raised when multiple dependency file parsers are detected."""
+
     message = "Can't auto detect dependencies file to parse. More than one format was found."

src/twyn/file_handler/exceptions.py

@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@
 
 
 class PathIsNotFileError(TwynError):
+    """Exception raised when a specified path exists but is not a regular file."""
+
     message = "Specified dependencies path is not a file"
 
 
-class PathNotFoundError(TwynError, FileNotFoundError):
+class PathNotFoundError(TwynError):
+    """Exception raised when a specified file path does not exist in the filesystem."""
+
     message = "Specified dependencies file path does not exist"

src/twyn/similarity/exceptions.py

@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@
 
 
 class DistanceAlgorithmError(TwynError):
+    """Exception raised while running distance algorithm."""
+
     message = "Exception raised while running distance algorithm"
 
 
 class ThresholdError(TwynError, ValueError):
+    """Exception raised when minimum threshold is greater than maximum threshold."""
+
     message = "Minimum threshold cannot be greater than maximum threshold."

src/twyn/trusted_packages/exceptions.py

@@ -2,19 +2,30 @@
 
 
 class InvalidJSONError(TwynError):
+    """Exception raised when JSON decoding of downloaded packages list fails."""
+
     message = "Could not json decode the downloaded packages list"
 
 
-class InvalidPyPiFormatError(TwynError, KeyError):
+class InvalidPyPiFormatError(TwynError):
+    """Exception raised when PyPI JSON format is invalid."""
+
     message = "Invalid JSON format."
 
 
 class EmptyPackagesListError(TwynError):
+    """Exception raised when downloaded packages list is empty."""
+
     message = "Downloaded packages list is empty"
 
 
-class CharacterNotInMatrixError(TwynError, KeyError): ...  # TODO add comments
+class CharacterNotInMatrixError(TwynError):
+    """Exception raised when a character is not found in the similarity matrix."""
+
+    message = "Character not found in similarity matrix"
 
 
 class InvalidCacheError(TwynError):
     """Error for when the cache content is not valid."""
+
+    message = "Invalid cache content"

tests/main/test_cli.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 from click.testing import CliRunner
 from twyn import cli
 from twyn.base.constants import AvailableLoggingLevels
+from twyn.base.exceptions import TwynError
 from twyn.trusted_packages.cache_handler import CacheEntry, CacheHandler
 from twyn.trusted_packages.trusted_packages import TyposquatCheckResult
 
@@ -216,3 +217,35 @@ def test_dependency_file_name_has_to_be_recognized(self):
         assert isinstance(result.exception, SystemExit)
         assert result.exit_code == 2
         assert "Dependency file name not supported." in result.output
+
+    @patch("twyn.cli.check_dependencies")
+    def test_base_twyn_error_is_caught_and_wrapped_in_cli_error(self, mock_check_dependencies, caplog):
+        """Test that BaseTwynError is caught and wrapped in CliError."""
+        runner = CliRunner()
+
+        # Mock check_dependencies to raise a BaseTwynError
+        test_error = TwynError("Test base error")
+        test_error.message = "Test base error message"
+        mock_check_dependencies.side_effect = test_error
+
+        result = runner.invoke(cli.run, ["--dependency", "requests"])
+
+        assert result.exit_code == 1
+        assert isinstance(result.exception, SystemExit)
+        # Check that the error message was logged
+        assert "Test base error message" in caplog.text
+
+    @patch("twyn.cli.check_dependencies")
+    def test_unhandled_exception_is_caught_and_wrapped_in_cli_error(self, mock_check_dependencies, caplog):
+        """Test that unhandled exceptions are caught and wrapped in CliError."""
+        runner = CliRunner()
+
+        # Mock check_dependencies to raise a generic exception
+        mock_check_dependencies.side_effect = ValueError("Unexpected error")
+
+        result = runner.invoke(cli.run, ["--dependency", "requests"])
+
+        assert result.exit_code == 1
+        assert isinstance(result.exception, SystemExit)
+        # Check that the generic error message was logged
+        assert "Unhandled exception occured." in caplog.text