Better formatting for config errors from modules (#8874)

The idea is that the parse_config method of extension modules can raise either a ConfigError or a JsonValidationError,
and it will be magically turned into a legible error message. There's a few components to it:

* Separating the "path" and the "message" parts of a ConfigError, so that we can fiddle with the path bit to turn it
   into an absolute path.
* Generally improving the way ConfigErrors get printed.
* Passing in the config path to load_module so that it can wrap any exceptions that get caught appropriately.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/config/third_party_event_rules.py b/synapse/config/third_party_event_rules.py
index 10a99c792e..c04e1c4e07 100644
--- a/synapse/config/third_party_event_rules.py
+++ b/synapse/config/third_party_event_rules.py
@@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ class ThirdPartyRulesConfig(Config):
 
         provider = config.get("third_party_event_rules", None)
         if provider is not None:
-            self.third_party_event_rules = load_module(provider)
+            self.third_party_event_rules = load_module(
+                provider, ("third_party_event_rules",)
+            )
 
     def generate_config_section(self, **kwargs):
         return """\