Improve error messages

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/vespajlib/src/main/java/com/yahoo/collections/IntRange.java b/vespajlib/src/main/java/com/yahoo/collections/IntRange.java
index c1159357e08..b745322d458 100644
--- a/vespajlib/src/main/java/com/yahoo/collections/IntRange.java
+++ b/vespajlib/src/main/java/com/yahoo/collections/IntRange.java
@@ -119,9 +119,14 @@ public class IntRange {
     }
 
     private static OptionalInt parseOptionalInt(String s) {
-        s = s.trim();
-        if (s.isEmpty()) return OptionalInt.empty();
-        return OptionalInt.of(Integer.parseInt(s));
+        try {
+            s = s.trim();
+            if (s.isEmpty()) return OptionalInt.empty();
+            return OptionalInt.of(Integer.parseInt(s));
+        }
+        catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("'" + s + "' is not an integer");
+        }
     }
 
 }