propagate authentication errors to end user

twitchio/client.py

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 import sys
 from typing import Union, Callable, List, Optional, Tuple, Any, Coroutine, Dict
 
-from twitchio.errors import HTTPException
+from twitchio.errors import HTTPException, AuthenticationError
 from . import models
 from .websocket import WSConnection
 from .http import TwitchHTTP
@@ -155,7 +155,8 @@ def run(self):
         connects to the twitch IRC server, and cleans up when done.
         """
         try:
-            self.loop.create_task(self.connect())
+            task = self.loop.create_task(self.connect())
+            self.loop.run_until_complete(task) # this'll raise if the connect fails
             self.loop.run_forever()
         except KeyboardInterrupt:
             pass

twitchio/websocket.py

@@ -122,7 +122,12 @@ async def _connect(self):
         if self.is_alive:
             await self._websocket.close()  # If for some reason we are in a weird state, close it before retrying.
         if not self._client._http.nick:
-            data = await self._client._http.validate(token=self._token)
+            try:
+                data = await self._client._http.validate(token=self._token)
+            except AuthenticationError:
+                await self._client._http.session.close()
+                self._client._closing.set() # clean up and error out (this is called to avoid calling Client.close in start()
+                raise
             self.nick = data["login"]
             self.user_id = int(data["user_id"])
         else: