I am trying to find the best way to log bad requests using node-fetch. Here is the code I came up with.
let response = fetch(url)
.then((response) => {
if(!response.ok)
{
//get error json from request and throw exception
}
return response.json();
})
.then((json) => {
return json.data;
})
.catch((error) => console.log(error));
The problem here is that response.json() returns a promise so I can't use that to extract the error message and construct an exception. I am pretty new to JS so I feel that the solution to this is very straight-forward and it's just going over my head! Could you guys help me out?
I typically do something like this:
fetch(...).then(
response=>{
if (response.ok){
return response.json()
}
else {
return response.json().then(i=>Promise.reject(i))
}
}
)
If you have access to await it becomes even simpler:
let response = await fetch(...);
if (!response.ok){
throw await response.json()
}
else {
return await response.json()
}
Related
I have an HTTP API that returns JSON data both on success and on failure.
An example failure would look like this:
~ ◆ http get http://localhost:5000/api/isbn/2266202022
HTTP/1.1 400 BAD REQUEST
Content-Length: 171
Content-Type: application/json
Server: TornadoServer/4.0
{
"message": "There was an issue with at least some of the supplied values.",
"payload": {
"isbn": "Could not find match for ISBN."
},
"type": "validation"
}
What I want to achieve in my JavaScript code is something like this:
fetch(url)
.then((resp) => {
if (resp.status >= 200 && resp.status < 300) {
return resp.json();
} else {
// This does not work, since the Promise returned by `json()` is never fulfilled
return Promise.reject(resp.json());
}
})
.catch((error) => {
// Do something with the error object
}
// This does not work, since the Promise returned by `json()` is never fulfilled
return Promise.reject(resp.json());
Well, the resp.json promise will be fulfilled, only Promise.reject doesn't wait for it and immediately rejects with a promise.
I'll assume that you rather want to do the following:
fetch(url).then((resp) => {
let json = resp.json(); // there's always a body
if (resp.status >= 200 && resp.status < 300) {
return json;
} else {
return json.then(Promise.reject.bind(Promise));
}
})
(or, written explicitly)
return json.then(err => {throw err;});
Here's a somewhat cleaner approach that relies on response.ok and makes use of the underlying JSON data instead of the Promise returned by .json().
function myFetchWrapper(url) {
return fetch(url).then(response => {
return response.json().then(json => {
return response.ok ? json : Promise.reject(json);
});
});
}
// This should trigger the .then() with the JSON response,
// since the response is an HTTP 200.
myFetchWrapper('http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=Brooklyn,NY').then(console.log.bind(console));
// This should trigger the .catch() with the JSON response,
// since the response is an HTTP 400.
myFetchWrapper('https://content.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search').catch(console.warn.bind(console));
The solution above from Jeff Posnick is my favourite way of doing it, but the nesting is pretty ugly.
With the newer async/await syntax we can do it in a more synchronous looking way, without the ugly nesting that can quickly become confusing.
async function myFetchWrapper(url) {
const response = await fetch(url);
const json = await response.json();
return response.ok ? json : Promise.reject(json);
}
This works because, an async function always returns a promise and once we have the JSON we can then decide how to return it based on the response status (using response.ok).
You would error handle the same way as you would in Jeff's answer, however you could also use try/catch, an error handling higher order function, or with some modification to prevent the promise rejecting you can use my favourite technique that ensures error handling is enforced as part of the developer experience.
const url = 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=Brooklyn,NY'
// Example with Promises
myFetchWrapper(url)
.then((res) => ...)
.catch((err) => ...);
// Example with try/catch (presuming wrapped in an async function)
try {
const data = await myFetchWrapper(url);
...
} catch (err) {
throw new Error(err.message);
}
Also worth reading MDN - Checking that the fetch was successful for why we have to do this, essentially a fetch request only rejects with network errors, getting a 404 is not a network error.
I found my solution at MDN:
function fetchAndDecode(url) {
return fetch(url).then(response => {
if(!response.ok) {
throw new Error(`HTTP error! status: ${response.status}`);
} else {
return response.blob();
}
})
}
let coffee = fetchAndDecode('coffee.jpg');
let tea = fetchAndDecode('tea.jpg');
Promise.any([coffee, tea]).then(value => {
let objectURL = URL.createObjectURL(value);
let image = document.createElement('img');
image.src = objectURL;
document.body.appendChild(image);
})
.catch(e => {
console.log(e.message);
});
Maybe this option can be valid
new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
fetch(url)
.then(async (response) => {
const data = await response.json();
return { statusCode: response.status, body: data };
})
.then((response) => {
if (response.statusCode >= 200 && response.statusCode < 300) {
resolve(response.body);
} else {
reject(response.body);
}
})
});
This question already has answers here:
fetch: Reject promise with JSON error object
(5 answers)
Closed last year.
In a locally run Node.js script, this works when status is 200:
// module file
import fetch from "node-fetch";
export const getJSON = () => {
const url = 'https://api.somesite.com/api/v0/etc';
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Accept: 'application/json'}};
const request = fetch(url, options)
.then(response => response.json())
.catch(err => console.log("somesite:", err));
return Promise.resolve(request);
};
// execution file
import { getJSON } from './libs/api_requests.mjs';
console.log("func call", await getJSON());
But the fetch also works without triggering the .catch logic when the response status is 4xx or 5xx (see for example this answer).
Execution doesn't break and I actually receive an error message when the function is called as if that would be the correct, normal result - as the output of response.json().
This message is in plain English, something like "error: 'Incorrect path. Please check https://www.somesite.com/api/'".
I would like to preserve/display this error message, only I would like to catch it within the function getJSON in the module file, instead of having to wrap some logic around it at the destination, potentially repeating the same code multiple times everywhere the function is called, instead of dealing with the issue just once at the source.
So I modified the .then clause like this, which also works:
.then(response => { if (response.ok) { // .ok should be status 200 only, I suppose
return response.json();
} else { throw new Error(response.status) }
This now triggers the .catch clause as intended, displaying "Error: 404 [etc]". Except what I would like to throw is the original error message "Incorrect path [etc]" and that I could not do. I tried
.then(response => { if (response.ok) {
return response.json();
} else { throw new Error(response.json()) } // somesite: Error: [object Promise]
.then(response => { if (response.ok) {
return response.json()
} else { throw new Error(Promise.resolve(response.json())) } // somesite: Error: [object Promise]
.then(response => { if (response.ok) {
return response.json()
} else { throw new Error(return response.json()) } // SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'return'
.then(response => { if (response.ok) {
return response.json();
} else { throw new Error(Promise.resolve(request)) } // somesite: Error: [object Promise]
I guess I need to resolve the response.json() promise as if all was ok, but how to do that?
I also had a look at the request object with console.dir(request, { depth: null }) to see if I could extract the error message from there, but I couldn't find it and the object still contained many unexpanded elements like [Function: onerror] or [Function: onclose] for example.
Try response.text() instead of response.json() when the status code is 400 or 500.
In my experience, the error messages are typically returned by the text callback.
See this answer to a similar question.
Edit:
Added the following code, suggested by OP.
.then((response) => {
if (response.ok) {
return response.json();
}
else {
return response.text()
.then((text) => {
throw(text);
// if the error is an object and you just want to display some elements:
throw(JSON.parse(text));
});
}
})
.catch((err) => {
// in case you want to log the error
console.log("somesite: ", err));
return new Error("somesite: " + err);
});
My fetch request is as follows -
fetch(base_url + "/user/details", options)
.then(response => {
if (response.ok) {
return response.json();
} else {
throw new Error(response.json().message);
}
})
.then(responseJson => processResponse(responseJson))
.catch(error => handleError(error));
When the response is not ok (400 in this case) the JSON looks like this -
{"timestamp":"2020-08-27T14:44:21.077176","message":"Failed for some reason."}
However, when I try to access the above response (like this - response.json().message), I get a blank.
How do I access the JSON in this case?
response.json() returns a promise
It won't have a message property, only its resolved value does.
const response = await fetch(base_url + "/user/details", options);
const data = await response.json();
if (response.ok) {
return processResponse(data);
}
handleError(new Error(data.message));
I have got the response from the JSON API, but I don't know how to parse it, it just comes back with an error, I don't know enough about it to figure it out, it returns:
(node:36308) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: SyntaxError: Unexpected token o in JSON at position 1
var fetch = require('node-fetch');
fetch('https://sv443.net/jokeapi/v2/joke/Any', function(res){
if (res.ok) {
return res;
} else {
console.log(res.statusText);
}
})
.then(res => res.json())
.then((json) => {
var parsedData = JSON.parse(json)
console.log(parsedData.joke);
});
You just need to do the following to access the delivery.
fetch("https://sv443.net/jokeapi/v2/joke/Any?type=single")
.then(response => {
return response.json();
})
.then(json => {
// likely to be json.delivery but cannot
// confirm until rate limits have been lifted
console.log(JSON.stringify(json));
})
.catch(err => {
console.log(err);
});
Try this:
fetch('https://sv443.net/jokeapi/v2/joke/Any', function(res){
if (res.ok) {
return res;
} else {
console.log(res.statusText);
}
})
.then(response => response.json())
.then(data => console.log(data));
You are already parsing it with res.json(). It returns an object (in promise) which can be accessed directly. Depending on a type prop you may have different props to check for. For example twopart joke will have setup: question, and delivery: answer
I recently have learned something about fetch() and promise, and now I need to use it in project. Here I have a fetch() function, which works very well, but I think, it must catch an error. So, what is the best way to catch error in fetch() functions? And i need to catch them in both then()?
Here some code:
const endpoint = 'http://localhost:3030/api/hotels';
const promise = fetch(endpoint)
.then(res => res.json(), err => {
console.log(err);
})
.then(parseRooms, err => {
console.log(err);
})
Thank you !
Use the fact that promise handlers chain together. Each call to then or catch creates a new promise, which is chained to the previous one.
So in your case:
const promise = fetch(endpoint)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(parseRooms)
.catch(error => {
// Do something useful with the error
});
I'm assuming there that parseRooms throws an error if there's a problem with the structure it receives.
You probably want to check res.ok in there, too, since fetch only fails if there was a network error, not if there was an HTTP error such as a 404:
const promise = fetch(endpoint)
.then(res => {
if (!res.ok) {
throw new Error(); // Will take you to the `catch` below
}
return res.json();
})
.then(parseRooms)
.catch(error => {
// Do something useful with the error
});