From 7596e8535879d63e2f090e28191dfa9bee887502 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tyler Neely <t@jujit.su>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2022 12:37:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] When message conversion fails to happen, demangle the
 concrete type name and error log a useful message

---
 src/io/message_conversion.hpp | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/io/message_conversion.hpp b/src/io/message_conversion.hpp
index 11c045123..c4cce732b 100644
--- a/src/io/message_conversion.hpp
+++ b/src/io/message_conversion.hpp
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 
 #pragma once
 
+#include <boost/core/demangle.hpp>
+
 #include "io/transport.hpp"
 #include "utils/type_info_ref.hpp"
 
@@ -90,6 +92,10 @@ struct OpaqueMessage {
       };
     }
 
+    std::string demangled_name = "\"" + boost::core::demangle(message.type().name()) + "\"";
+    spdlog::error("failed to cast message of type {} to expected request type (probably in Receive argument types)",
+                  demangled_name);
+
     return std::nullopt;
   }
 };