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SolidJS•2y ago•
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mykola

handling (http) errors with createResource

I don't understand how to get hold of the error when using the tutorial examples of fetching REST data. The error is always either empty, or not callable to me ("solid-js": "^1.8.11").

If I take the example from the documentation here and make it work. I shows the fetched data OK, but doesn't handle http404's. OK, I modify the fetchUser function to throw on non-ok: 

const fetchUser = async (id) => {
  const response = await fetch(`https://swapi.dev/api/people/${id}/`);
  if (!response.ok) {
    throw Error(`Response not ok ${response.status}`);
  }
  return response.json();
};

function App() {
  const [userId, setUserId] = createSignal();
  const [user] = createResource(userId, fetchUser);

  return (
    <div>
      <input
        type="number"
        min="1"
        placeholder="Enter Numeric Id"
        onInput={(e) => setUserId(e.currentTarget.value)}
      />
      <Show when={user.loading}>
        <p>Loading...</p>
      </Show>
      <Switch>
        <Match when={user.error}>
          <span>Error: {user.error()}</span>
        </Match>
        <Match when={user()}>
          <div>{JSON.stringify(user())}</div>
        </Match>
      </Switch>
    </div>
  );
}

the rendering gets broken because the user.error() isn't a function 🤔 
Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: user.error is not a function


When I replace user.error() with the typeOf and JSON.stringify, they show an empty object 
{}
. 

        <Match when={user.error}>
          <span>Error: {typeof(user.error)} {JSON.stringify(user.error)}</span>
        </Match>


❓ What do I do wrong, and how to get the resource errors reported properly?

I tried Promised.reject(new Error(...)) and axios.get with no change in behavior.

Playground example: https://playground.solidjs.com/anonymous/3b5dbdc3-c242-4d24-8468-f7b5c98509ed
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