Merge pull request moby#2638 from FreakyDazio/2506-name-conflict-error

More informative error message on name collisions

AUTHORS

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ Daniel Nordberg <[email protected]>
 Daniel Robinson <[email protected]>
 Daniel Von Fange <[email protected]>
 Daniel YC Lin <[email protected]>
+Darren Coxall <[email protected]>
 David Calavera <[email protected]>
 David Sissitka <[email protected]>
 Deni Bertovic <[email protected]>

integration/runtime_test.go

@@ -231,6 +231,18 @@ func TestRuntimeCreate(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("Exists() returned false for a newly created container")
 	}
 
+	// Test that conflict error displays correct details
+	testContainer, _, _ := runtime.Create(
+		&docker.Config{
+			Image: GetTestImage(runtime).ID,
+			Cmd:   []string{"ls", "-al"},
+		},
+		"conflictname",
+	)
+	if _, _, err := runtime.Create(&docker.Config{Image: GetTestImage(runtime).ID, Cmd: []string{"ls", "-al"}}, testContainer.Name); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), utils.TruncateID(testContainer.ID)) {
+		t.Fatalf("Name conflict error doesn't include the correct short id. Message was: %s", err.Error())
+	}
+
 	// Make sure create with bad parameters returns an error
 	if _, _, err = runtime.Create(&docker.Config{Image: GetTestImage(runtime).ID}, ""); err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("Builder.Create should throw an error when Cmd is missing")

runtime.go

@@ -402,7 +402,8 @@ func (runtime *Runtime) Create(config *Config, name string) (*Container, []strin
 	// Set the enitity in the graph using the default name specified
 	if _, err := runtime.containerGraph.Set(name, id); err != nil {
 		if strings.HasSuffix(err.Error(), "name are not unique") {
-			return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("Conflict, %s already exists.", name)
+			conflictingContainer, _ := runtime.GetByName(name)
+			return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("Conflict, The name %s is already assigned to %s. You have to delete (or rename) that container to be able to assign %s to a container again.", name, utils.TruncateID(conflictingContainer.ID), name)
 		}
 		return nil, nil, err
 	}