From 9ac8032211d5c2580606ce38df94bef956774c81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JT Smith <jt@lacunaexpanse.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:19:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] better error message

---
 lib/Lacuna/RPC/Building/SpacePort.pm | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/Lacuna/RPC/Building/SpacePort.pm b/lib/Lacuna/RPC/Building/SpacePort.pm
index b857243c..94a3bcdc 100644
--- a/lib/Lacuna/RPC/Building/SpacePort.pm
+++ b/lib/Lacuna/RPC/Building/SpacePort.pm
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ sub model_class {
 
 sub find_target {
     my ($self, $target_params) = @_;
+    unless (ref $target_params eq 'HASH') {
+        confess [-32602, 'The target parameter should be a hash reference. For example { "star_id" : 9999 }.'];
+    }
     my $target;
     if (exists $target_params->{star_id}) {
         $target = Lacuna->db->resultset('Lacuna::DB::Result::Map::Star')->find($target_params->{star_id});
-- 
2.51.2