Errorish

When you have an error-ish but what you really want is an Error.

Install

npm install errorish

Use cases

There are three main use cases for Errorish:

• You need to make sure an Error has a message, name, and stack properties.
• You need to make sure any object is actually an error, as expected.
• You want to extend the Error class to store an identifying label, a source error, and/or associated data.

Usage

See complete documentation.

• Exception is an Error extending class with additional label, error and data fields.
• Utils:
  • ensure ensures any is an Error, otherwise creating one -it can optionally include a normalization step, enabled by default.
  • normalize ensures an Error has a message, name, and stack properties -filling them if they're not defined.
  • capture runs Error.captureStackTrace if running in V8 to clean up the error stack trace.

Exception

See documentation for Exception.

Exception is an Error extending class that can store an identifying label, the source error that caused it and/or additional associated data. Exception also comes with several static and instance methods.

import { Exception } from 'errorish';

try {
  try {
    throw new Error('Source');
  } catch (err) {
    // throws with label
    throw new Exception(['label', 'message'], err, { code: 401 });
  }
} catch (err) {
  // throws without label
  throw new Exception(err.message, err, { code: 500 })
}
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Utils

ensure

See documentation for ensure.

Ensure will return its first argument if an instance of Error is passed as such, otherwise instantiating and returning an Exception.

import { ensure } from 'errorish';

ensure('foo'); // Error: foo
ensure(new Error('foo')); // Error: foo
ensure({ message: 'foo' }); // Error: foo
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normalize

See documentation for normalize.

Normalization fills an error's message, name, and stack property when empty. It's performed by default by ensure, but it can also be run independently.

import { normalize } from 'errorish';

normalize(new Error()); // Error: An error occurred
normalize(new Error(), { message: 'Foo bar' }); // Error: Foo bar
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capture

See documentation for capture.

Captures the stack trace on Node and Chromium browsers.

import { capture } from 'errorish';

capture(new Error());
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