Improve Error Handling in GenerateAccountsWithKeyrings Function

[nagarajdivine]

Description

• Improve Error Handling in GenerateAccountsWithKeyrings Function.
  closes: Improve Error Handling in GenerateAccountsWithKeyrings Function #1970

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements

  • Enhanced error handling in account keyring generation functionality.

• Tests

  • Updated test infrastructure for keyring setup across multiple modules.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Four integration test suites and a changelog were updated to refactor keyring initialization. Previously, a single GenerateTestKeyring call created both the keyring and test account entries. Now, NewTestKeyring creates the keyring, then GenerateTestAccountsInKeyring populates it separately, enabling improved error handling at each step.

Changes

Keyring Helper Refactoring

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Split keyring and account generation across test suites .changelog/unreleased/improvements/1970-keyring-helper.md, x/ibcratelimit/client/cli/cli_test.go, x/marker/client/cli/cli_test.go, x/metadata/client/cli/cli_test.go, x/trigger/client/cli/cli_test.go	Each test suite's GenerateAccountsWithKeyrings method now creates the keyring explicitly via testutil.NewTestKeyring, then generates test accounts via testutil.GenerateTestAccountsInKeyring, replacing the prior combined call. The changelog documents this improved error-handling approach.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~8 minutes

Poem

🐰 Four test suites dance in line,
Splitting keyrings, oh so fine!
Two steps now where one before,
Error handling at each door—
Better tests for forevermore! 🔑✨

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 1 | ❌ 4

❌ Failed checks (4 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Title check	⚠️ Warning	The title refers to improving error handling in GenerateAccountsWithKeyrings, but the actual changes refactor the function by splitting a single call into two separate calls without implementing error handling tests.	Either update the PR title to reflect the actual refactoring changes (e.g., 'Refactor GenerateAccountsWithKeyrings to use separate keyring creation and account generation calls'), or implement error handling tests as described in the linked issue #1970.
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	The PR does not fulfill the primary requirement from issue #1970: implementing tests that simulate keyring creation or mnemonic generation failures to verify error handling.	Add tests that explicitly simulate failure scenarios (keyring creation failures, mnemonic generation failures) in GenerateAccountsWithKeyrings and verify proper error handling.
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	The refactoring of GenerateAccountsWithKeyrings across multiple test files (ibcratelimit, marker, metadata, trigger) appears to be structural cleanup rather than the error handling improvements described in issue #1970.	Clarify whether the two-step keyring creation refactoring is preparatory work for error handling tests, or implement the error handling tests as the primary objective of this PR.
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
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Actionable comments posted: 1

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Inline comments:
In `@x/ibcratelimit/client/cli/cli_test.go`:
- Around line 109-111: The helper GenerateAccountsWithKeyrings currently calls
testutil.NewTestKeyring and testutil.GenerateTestAccountsInKeyring which call
require.NoError internally and thus abort tests instead of returning errors;
change GenerateAccountsWithKeyrings to use error-returning variants (or accept
injectable factory functions) so keyring creation and account generation return
errors to the caller (e.g., make GenerateAccountsWithKeyrings return error and
propagate errors from testutil.NewTestKeyring and
testutil.GenerateTestAccountsInKeyring), allowing the test suite to choose
require.NoError or assert on failure paths.

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📥 Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 63ceab7 and 761e18e.

📒 Files selected for processing (5)

• .changelog/unreleased/improvements/1970-keyring-helper.md
• x/ibcratelimit/client/cli/cli_test.go
• x/marker/client/cli/cli_test.go
• x/metadata/client/cli/cli_test.go
• x/trigger/client/cli/cli_test.go

[SpicyLemon]

tldr; I think we can just close the issue as done without doing a PR.

I think the one-liner is better than the split out version.

The ticket was originally about adding some unit tests to the testutil.GenerateTestKeyring func and its related functions, but that's a pain and I don't think it buys us anything. The secondary goal of the issue was to find all the places that do keyring stuff without using testutil.GenerateTestKeyring. I did a quick look through the CLI stuff and all I found was the quarantine module, but since we're getting rid of that, there isn't really anything to do there.

[nagarajdivine]

We can close this PR 👍 , since there's already a PR for removing the quarantine module.