Catch Decorator

ECMAScript/TypeScript Catch decorator for classes and functions. Based on @enkot/catch-decorator.

Install

npm install @magna_shogun/catch-decorator

yarn add @magna_shogun/catch-decorator

Usage

catch-decorator works with any ECMAScript/TypeScript class. If you use Babel, babel-plugin-transform-decorators-legacy is needed. If you use TypeScript, enable --experimentalDecorators flag.

Catch

Decorate a function to catch the specific type of error.

class Messenger {
  @Catch(ReferenceError, (err, ctx) => {...})
  getMessages() {
    throw new ReferenceError('ReferenceError here!');
    ...
  }
}

You can stack decorators to catch and handle different types of error.

class Messenger {
  @Catch(TypeError, (err, ctx) => {...})
  @Catch(ReferenceError, (err, ctx) => {...})
  getMessages() {
    if (conditionA) {
      throw new ReferenceError('ReferenceError here!');
      ...
    }
    if (conditionB) {
      throw new TypeError('TypeError here!');
      ...
    }   
  }
}

It also works for async functions.

class Messenger {
  @Catch(ServerError, (err, ctx) => {...})
  async getMessages() {
    return fetch(myRequest).then(response => { // can throw ServerError
      ...
    });
  }
}

CatchAll

You can catch any type of errors using the CatchAll decorator.

class Messenger {
  @CatchAll((err, ctx) => {...})
  getMessages() {
    // Both ReferenceError and TypeError will be catched
    if (conditionA) {
      throw new ReferenceError('ReferenceError here!');
      ...
    }
    if (conditionB) {
      throw new TypeError('TypeError here!');
      ...
    }   
  }
}

Class Decoration

If you want to apply the same decorator to all the functions of a class (excluding its constructor), you can add the decorator to the class.

class Messenger {
  @Catch(ReferenceError, (err, ctx) => {...})
  getMessages() {
    throw new ReferenceError('ReferenceError here!');
    ...
  }
  
  @Catch(ReferenceError, (err, ctx) => {...})
  getPosts() {
    throw new ReferenceError('ReferenceError here!');
    ...
  }
}

This can be re-written as follows.

@Catch(ReferenceError, (err, ctx) => {...})
class Messenger {
  getMessages() {
    throw new ReferenceError('ReferenceError here!');
    ...
  }
  
  getPosts() {
    throw new ReferenceError('ReferenceError here!');
    ...
  }
}

HandlerFunction

The callback for the Catch and CatchAll decorators is of type HandlerFunction.

type HandlerFunction = (error: Error, ctx: any) => void;

error is the caught error or exception.
ctx is the context (this) of the function were the error was thrown.

License

MIT