I am using fetch api for fetching an URL that might return:
Response : status = 200, json body = {'user': 'abc', 'id': 1}
or
Response : status = 400 , json body = {'reason': 'some reason'}
or
Response : status = 400 , json body = {'reason': 'some other reason'}
I want to make a separate function request()
that I use from various parts of my code as follows:
request('http://api.example.com/').then(
// status 200 comes here
data => // do something with data.id, data.user
).catch(
// status 400, 500 comes here
error => // here error.reason will give me further info, i also want to know whether status was 400 or 500 etc
)
I am unable to do the split between 200 and 400,500 (i have tried by throwing an error). When I throw an error, I am finding it hard to still extract the JSON body (to use for error.reason).
My current code is as follows:
import 'whatwg-fetch';
/**
* Requests a URL, returning a promise
*/
export default function request(url, options={}) {
console.log('sending api request, url = ' + url)
return fetch(url, options)
.then(checkStatus)
.then(parseJSON)
.then((data) => ({data}))
.catch((err) => ({err}));
}
function checkStatus(response) {
if (response.status >= 200 && response.status < 300) {
return response;
}
const error = new Error(response.statusText);
error.response = response;
throw error;
}
function parseJSON(response) {
return response.json(); // json() is a promise itself
}
I have tried to solve this by doing as follows, by inverting the order of .then()
calls, but does not work
export default function request(url, options) {
return fetch(url, options)
.then(parseJSON) // note that now first calling parseJSON to get not just JSON but also status.
.then(checkStatus) // i.e. Inverted order of the two functions from before
.then((data) => ({data}))
.catch((err) => ({err}));
}
function checkStatus({data, status}) {
if (status >= 200 && status < 300) {
return data;
}
else {
// const error = new Error(response.statusText);
const error = new Error("Something went wrong");
// error.response = response;
error.data = data;
throw error;
}
}
function parseJSON(response) {
let jsonBody
response.json().then(json => {
jsonBody = json // this does not help, i thought it will make jsonBody fill up, but seems its in a diff thread
})
return {
data: jsonBody,
status: response.status // my aim is to send a whole dict with status and data to send it to checkStatus, but this does not work
}
}