The error message when clientViaApplicationDefaultCredentials fallbacks to reading metadata servers (and failing) is cryptic

[rrousselGit]

Context for this issue: invertase/dart_firebase_admin#6

It appears that if a user tries to create a client with clientViaApplicationDefaultCredentials, yet have neither the environment nor gcloud/application_default_credentials.json setup, then google_apis_auth fallbacks to reaching out to metadata.google.internal.

The problem is that if that endpoint is unavailable (which is likely the case if the user made a mistake and did want to login using the other options), then we end-up with a "Failed host lookup: 'metadata.google.internal'" error.

This is likely confusing, and a better error message could make it more intuitive to understand what the issue is.

[kevmoo]

Yup. A good place to do a catch and rethrow w/ something more helpful!

[rrousselGit]

Would you be open to have a PR for this?

[kevmoo]

Would you be open to have a PR for this?

ABSOLUTELY!