Update Error message for VersionNotFoundError to handle Permission related issues better

RELEASE.md

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 ## Bug fixes and other changes
 * Fixed `kedro micropkg pull` for packages on PyPI.
 * Fixed `format` in `save_args` for `SparkHiveDataSet`, previously it didn't allow you to save it as delta format.
+* Updated error message for `VersionNotFoundError` to handle insufficient permission issues for cloud storage.
 
 ## Minor breaking changes to the API
 

kedro/io/core.py

@@ -538,9 +538,16 @@ def _fetch_latest_load_version(self) -> str:
         most_recent = next(
             (path for path in version_paths if self._exists_function(path)), None
         )
-
+        protocol = getattr(self, "_protocol", None)
         if not most_recent:
-            raise VersionNotFoundError(f"Did not find any versions for {self}")
+            if protocol in CLOUD_PROTOCOLS:
+                message = (
+                    f"Did not find any versions for {self}. This could be "
+                    f"due to insufficient permission."
+                )
+            else:
+                message = f"Did not find any versions for {self}"
+            raise VersionNotFoundError(message)
 
         return PurePath(most_recent).parent.name
 

tests/io/test_data_catalog.py

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     LambdaDataSet,
     MemoryDataSet,
 )
-from kedro.io.core import VERSION_FORMAT, generate_timestamp
+from kedro.io.core import VERSION_FORMAT, Version, generate_timestamp
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
@@ -652,3 +652,14 @@ def test_replacing_nonword_characters(self):
         assert "ds2_spark" in catalog.datasets.__dict__
         assert "ds3__csv" in catalog.datasets.__dict__
         assert "jalapeño" in catalog.datasets.__dict__
+
+    def test_no_versions_with_cloud_protocol(self):
+        """Check the error if no versions are available for load from cloud storage"""
+        version = Version(load=None, save=None)
+        versioned_dataset = CSVDataSet("s3://bucket/file.csv", version=version)
+        pattern = re.escape(
+            f"Did not find any versions for {versioned_dataset}. "
+            f"This could be due to insufficient permission."
+        )
+        with pytest.raises(DataSetError, match=pattern):
+            versioned_dataset.load()