Custom Error Classes

- All classes inherit from the abstract class (lib/abstract-error.js) inspired by dustin senos's post.
- The abstract error class inherits from the in built error object.
- All error classes exported in lib/main.js -> index.js

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1. ValidationError
2. DatabaseError

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1. BadRequest = Bad Request Error (400)
2. Unauthorized = Unauthorized Error (401)
3. Forbidden = Forbidden Error (403)
4. NotAcceptable Request Not Acceptable Error (406)

Sample Usage

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var main = require('./../lib/main');
var ValidationError = main.general.ValidationError;

var msg = "terrible input",
ValError = new BadRequest(msg);

console.log('ValError', ValError);

STDOUT output:

ValError {
name: 'Validation',
logLevel: 'warn',
resCode: undefined,
message: 'not a valid date'
}

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var BadRequestError = main.request.BadRequest;
var msg = "just an awful request",
ReqError = new BadRequestError(msg);

console.log('ReqError', ReqError);

STDOUT output:

ReqError {
name: 'BadRequest',
logLevel: 'warn',
resCode: 400,
message: 'just an awful request'
}

In-App Usage eg in Express

// route definitions
var customErrors = require('customErrors');
var BadRequestError = customErrors.request.BadRequest;

app.get('/some/route', function(req, res, next) {
if ('error thrown') {
next(new BadRequestError('reason for the bad request being thrown'));
}
});

// catchall error middleware (put at very end underneath all routes)
var util = require('util');
var Log = require('log');
var log = new Log();
var customErrors = require('customErrors');
var BadRequestError = customErrors.request.BadRequest;

app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {

if (err instanceof BadRequestError && app.get('env') === 'production') {
// use visionmedia's logger to write to main app logfile
var logLevel = err.logLevel || 'debug';
var logger = log[logLevel];
var seriousErrors = ['error', 'critical', 'alert', 'emergency'];

// log the error summary with visionmedia's logger
logger(err.name + ': ' + err.message);

// if it's a serious error then dump some more info for debugging purposes
if (seriousErrors.indexOf(logLevel) !== -1) {
console.log(err.stack);
}

} else {
// if in dev then deeply inspect every error
console.log(err.name || 'express error', util.inspect(err, true, 4, true));
}

res.send(err.resCode || 500, {error: err.name || "there was an error"});
});

TODO

1. add more tests
2. add visionmedia's log as dependency -> walk thru list of methods and throw error logLevel property is not a method

eg this shd throw:

errFactory('Database', 'err')

eg this is correct:

errFactory('Database', 'error')

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#### Header status codes

#### log levels

##### Visionmedia Logging Module
0 EMERGENCY system is unusable
1 ALERT action must be taken immediately
2 CRITICAL the system is in critical condition
3 ERROR error condition
4 WARNING warning condition
5 NOTICE a normal but significant condition
6 INFO a purely informational message
7 DEBUG messages to debug an application