W3C DOMCORE Errors

Provides the DOMException and DOMError W3C interfaces from the section 3 (Errors) of the DOM4 akka DOMCore W3C Working Draft. These interfaces are also defined in the WHATWG HTML5 Living standard.

These interfaces are useful if you want to provide standard Errors in your own APIs or in Polyfill libraries

This is available in NPM: https://npmjs.org/package/w3c-domcore-errors

How to use

var DOMException = require('w3c-domcore-errors').DOMException;
var InvalidCharacterError = new DOMException('InvalidCharacterError');

function myStringHandler(data) {
    if (!REGEX_VALID_STRING.test(data)) {
        throw InvalidCharacterError;
    }
    // do the job
}

Error Names

Name | Description | Legacy code exception field value (if any) ---------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- "IndexSizeError" | The index is not in the allowed range. | INDEX_SIZE_ERR (1)
"HierarchyRequestError" | The operation would yield an incorrect node tree. | HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR (3) "WrongDocumentError" | The object is in the wrong document. | WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR (4) "InvalidCharacterError" | The string contains invalid characters. | INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR (5) "NoModificationAllowedError" | The object can not be modified. | NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR (7) "NotFoundError" | The object can not be found here. | NOT_FOUND_ERR (8) "NotSupportedError" | The operation is not supported. | NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR (9) "InvalidStateError" | The object is in an invalid state. | INVALID_STATE_ERR (11) "SyntaxError" | The string did not match the expected pattern. | SYNTAX_ERR (12) "InvalidModificationError" | The object can not be modified in this way. | INVALID_MODIFICATION_ERR (13) "NamespaceError" | The operation is not allowed by Namespaces in XML. | NAMESPACE_ERR (14) "InvalidAccessError" | The object does not support the operation or argument. | INVALID_ACCESS_ERR (15) "SecurityError" | The operation is insecure. | SECURITY_ERR (18) "NetworkError" | A network error occurred. | NETWORK_ERR (19) "AbortError" | The operation was aborted. | ABORT_ERR (20) "URLMismatchError" | The given URL does not match another URL. | URL_MISMATCH_ERR (21) "QuotaExceededError" | The quota has been exceeded. | QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERR (22) "TimeoutError" | The operation timed out. | TIMEOUT_ERR (23) "InvalidNodeTypeError" | The supplied node is incorrect or has an incorrect ancestor for this operation. | INVALID_NODE_TYPE_ERR (24) "DataCloneError" | The object can not be cloned. | DATA_CLONE_ERR (25) "EncodingError" | The encoding operation (either encoded or decoding) failed. | —

References

Current standards

DOM4

W3C Working Draft 6 December 2012 - Section 3: Errors

http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#errors

WHATWG DOM

Living Standard - Section 3: Errors

http://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#errors

Previous standards

DOM Level 3 Core

W3C Recommendation 07 April 2004 - Section 1.4 Fundamental Interfaces: Core Module

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#ID-BBACDC08

Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core

W3C Recommendation 13 November, 2000 - Section 1.2. Fundamental Interfaces

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#ID-BBACDC08

Document Object Model (Core) Level 1

W3C Recommendation 1 October, 1998 - Section 1.2. Fundamental Interfaces

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/level-one-core.html#ID-BBACDC08

Browser support.. Can I Use...

If Browsers implement DOMException, DOMError is most of the time not implemented. I plan adapt this Polyfill to enhance Browser DOMError support, more specifically to provide DOMError as a constructor, as defined in the WHATWG edition of the specification.

I posted a feature request on caniuse.com to detect potential future implementations, so feel free to support it: http://www.google.com/moderator/#8/e=ae425&q=ae425.6c295c&v=4

License (MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013 Alexandre Morgaut

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