How to catch and handle error response 422 with Re

Question

I have an action making a POST request to the server in order to update a user's password, but I'm unable to handle the error in the chained catch block.

return axios({
  method: 'post',
  data: {
    password: currentPassword,
    new_password: newPassword
  },
  url: `path/to/endpoint`
})
.then(response => {
  dispatch(PasswordUpdateSuccess(response))
})
.catch(error => {
  console.log('ERROR', error)
  switch (error.type) {
    case 'password_invalid':
      dispatch(PasswordUpdateFailure('Incorrect current password'))
      break
    case 'invalid_attributes':
      dispatch(PasswordUpdateFailure('Fields must not be blank'))
      break
  }
})

When I log the error this is what I see:

When I check the network tab I can see the response body, but for some reason I can't access the values!

Have I unknowingly made a mistake somewhere? Because I'm handling other errors from different request fine, but can't seem to work this one out.

Answer 1

You can use inline if else statement like so:

.catch(error => {
    dispatch({
        type: authActions.AUTH_PROCESS_ERROR,
        error: error.response ? error.response.data.code.toString() : 'Something went wrong, please try again.'
    }); 
});

Answer 2

I was also stumped on this for a while. I won't rehash things too much, but I thought it would be helpful to others to add my 2 cents.

The error in the code above is of type Error. What happens is the toString method is called on the error object because you are trying to print something to the console. This is implicit, a result of writing to the console. If you look at the code of toString on the error object.

Error.prototype.toString = function() {
  'use strict';

  var obj = Object(this);
  if (obj !== this) {
    throw new TypeError();
  }

  var name = this.name;
  name = (name === undefined) ? 'Error' : String(name);

  var msg = this.message;
  msg = (msg === undefined) ? '' : String(msg);

  if (name === '') {
    return msg;
  }
  if (msg === '') {
    return name;
  }

  return name + ': ' + msg;
};

So you can see above it uses the internals to build up the string to output to the console.

There are great docs on this on mozilla.

Answer 3

Axios is probably parsing the response. I access the error like this in my code:

axios({
  method: 'post',
  responseType: 'json',
  url: `${SERVER_URL}/token`,
  data: {
    idToken,
    userEmail
  }
})
 .then(response => {
   dispatch(something(response));
 })
 .catch(error => {
   dispatch({ type: AUTH_FAILED });
   dispatch({ type: ERROR, payload: error.data.error.message });
 });

From the docs:

The response for a request contains the following information.

{
  // `data` is the response that was provided by the server
  data: {},

  // `status` is the HTTP status code from the server response
  status: 200,

  // `statusText` is the HTTP status message from the server response
  statusText: 'OK',

  // `headers` the headers that the server responded with
  headers: {},

  // `config` is the config that was provided to `axios` for the request
  config: {}
}

So the catch(error => ) is actually just catch(response => )

EDIT:

I still dont understand why logging the error returns that stack message. I tried logging it like this. And then you can actually see that it is an object.

console.log('errorType', typeof error);
console.log('error', Object.assign({}, error));

EDIT2:

After some more looking around this is what you are trying to print. Which is a Javascipt error object. Axios then enhances this error with the config, code and reponse like this.

console.log('error', error);
console.log('errorType', typeof error);
console.log('error', Object.assign({}, error));
console.log('getOwnPropertyNames', Object.getOwnPropertyNames(error));
console.log('stackProperty', Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(error, 'stack'));
console.log('messageProperty', Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(error, 'message'));
console.log('stackEnumerable', error.propertyIsEnumerable('stack'));
console.log('messageEnumerable', error.propertyIsEnumerable('message'));

Answer 4

Example

getUserList() {
    return axios.get('/users')
      .then(response => response.data)
      .catch(error => {
        if (error.response) {
          console.log(error.response);
        }
      });
  }

Check the error object for response, it will include the object you're looking for so you can do error.response.status

https://github.com/mzabriskie/axios#handling-errors