Move related errors into subErrors where reliably possible

index.js

@@ -47,18 +47,23 @@ module.exports = function wrapError(message, rules, options = {}) {
 					if (!preserveOriginalErrors) {
 						return [ new ValidationError(message) ];
 					} else {
-						let newRootErrors = (hasRootValidationErrors)
+						// If possible, we try to move any subpath errors into the subErrors of an (optionally newly-created) root error. Otherwise, it can become difficult for the user to correlate together the root and subpath errors that are related, when we start changing the messages of the root errors.
-							? errorsByType.validationRoot.map((error) => {
+						if (errorsByType.validationRoot.length === 0) {
-								// TODO: Currently we cannot set `originalError` due to a bug in `create-error`; switch to a better error implementation
+							return [ new ValidationError(message, { subErrors: errorsByType.validationPath }) ];
-								// return new ValidationError(`${message} (${error.message})`, { originalError: error })
+						} else if (errorsByType.validationRoot.length === 1) {
-								return new ValidationError(`${message} (${error.message})`)
+							let error = errorsByType.validationRoot[0];
-							})
+							
-							: [ new ValidationError(message) ];
+							// TODO: Currently we cannot set `originalError` due to a bug in `create-error`; switch to a better error implementation
-
+							return [ new ValidationError(`${message} (${error.message})`, { subErrors: errorsByType.validationPath }) ];
-						return concat([
+						} else {
-							newRootErrors,
+							// If there are multiple root errors, we cannot determine which root error the subpath errors belong to, so we'll just provide them as a flat list
-							errorsByType.validationPath
+							return concat([
-						]);
+								errorsByType.validationRoot.map((error) => {
+									return new ValidationError(`${message} (${error.message})`)
+								}),
+								errorsByType.validationPath
+							]);
+						}
 					}
 				} else {
 					return [];