Wrong error message on iOS ("error in connect() function")

[jesperjohansson]

On iOS you always receive the error message "error in connect() function".
By switching to localizedDescription we could get more specific error messages such as "Connection refused".

patch-package:

diff --git a/node_modules/react-native-tcp-socket/ios/TcpSockets.m b/node_modules/react-native-tcp-socket/ios/TcpSockets.m
index 23c961f..3a9783a 100644
--- a/node_modules/react-native-tcp-socket/ios/TcpSockets.m
+++ b/node_modules/react-native-tcp-socket/ios/TcpSockets.m
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ - (void)onClose:(NSNumber *)clientID withError:(NSError *)err {
 }
 
 - (void)onError:(TcpSocketClient *)client withError:(NSError *)err {
-    NSString *msg = err.localizedFailureReason ?: err.localizedDescription;
+    NSString *msg = err.localizedDescription ?: err.localizedFailureReason;
     [self sendEventWithName:@"error" body:@{@"id" : client.id, @"error" : msg}];
 }

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🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 6.0.5 🎉

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