I have tried:
app.get('/', function(req, res, next) {
var e = new Error('error message');
e.status = 400;
next(e);
});
and:
app.get('/', function(req, res, next) {
res.statusCode = 400;
var e = new Error('error message');
next(e);
});
but always an error code of 500 is announced.
Per the Express (Version 4+) docs, you can use:
res.status(400);
res.send('None shall pass');
http://expressjs.com/4x/api.html#res.status
<=3.8
res.statusCode = 401;
res.send('None shall pass');
A simple one liner;
res.status(404).send("Oh uh, something went wrong");
You can use res.send('OMG :(', 404);
just res.send(404);
The version of the errorHandler middleware bundled with some (perhaps older?) versions of express seems to have the status code hardcoded. The version documented here: http://www.senchalabs.org/connect/errorHandler.html on the other hand lets you do what you are trying to do. So, perhaps trying upgrading to the latest version of express/connect.
I'd like to centralize the creation of the error response in this way:
app.get('/test', function(req, res){
throw {status: 500, message: 'detailed message'};
});
app.use(function (err, req, res, next) {
res.status(err.status || 500).json({status: err.status, message: err.message})
});
So I have always the same error output format.
PS: of course you could create an object to extend the standard error like this:
const AppError = require('./lib/app-error');
app.get('/test', function(req, res){
throw new AppError('Detail Message', 500)
});
'use strict';
module.exports = function AppError(message, httpStatus) {
Error.captureStackTrace(this, this.constructor);
this.name = this.constructor.name;
this.message = message;
this.status = httpStatus;
};
require('util').inherits(module.exports, Error);
Old question, but still coming up on Google. In the current version of Express (3.4.0), you can alter res.statusCode before calling next(err):
res.statusCode = 404;
next(new Error('File not found'));
From what I saw in Express 4.0 this works for me. This is example of authentication required middleware.
function apiDemandLoggedIn(req, res, next) {
// if user is authenticated in the session, carry on
console.log('isAuth', req.isAuthenticated(), req.user);
if (req.isAuthenticated())
return next();
// If not return 401 response which means unauthroized.
var err = new Error();
err.status = 401;
next(err);
}
In express 4.0 they got it right :)
res.sendStatus(statusCode)
// Sets the response HTTP status code to statusCode and send its string representation as the response body.
res.sendStatus(200); // equivalent to res.status(200).send('OK')
res.sendStatus(403); // equivalent to res.status(403).send('Forbidden')
res.sendStatus(404); // equivalent to res.status(404).send('Not Found')
res.sendStatus(500); // equivalent to res.status(500).send('Internal Server Error')
//If an unsupported status code is specified, the HTTP status is still set to statusCode and the string version of the code is sent as the response body.
res.sendStatus(2000); // equivalent to res.status(2000).send('2000')
express deprecated res.send(body, status).
Use res.status(status).send(body) instead
I would recommend handling the sending of http error codes by using the Boom package.