Nuxt•4mo ago

Is there a way to NOT show an HTML error from an API?

The recommended way of handling errors in Nitro/API-land is to use createError. When hit directly, these show a full html error page, or if hit with accept: application/json, show a json payload with stack info. I'd like to return a simple message on-error vs all that. It would seem the only option I have is to use setResponseStatus and return whatever directly from the api vs passing something to createError. IMHO, no matter what, an api shouldn't be returning full page html errors.

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dmarr•4mo ago

I just put this together for showing a toast during a fetch error. You would still need to handle the fetch calls with try/catch, as i do in components/SomeComp.vue

dmarr•4mo ago

https://github.com/marr/nuxt-error-toast

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GitHub - marr/nuxt-error-toast: Example showing how to display a to...

Example showing how to display a toast when there is a fetch error. - marr/nuxt-error-toast

dmarr•4mo ago

It's using radix-ui for the toast.. i never see examples of showing toasts like this with errors, so im not sure if there is a better approach

Mads•4mo ago

Hi Josh. I recently went through same frustration. Here’s how I handle it:

import { and, eq } from 'drizzle-orm'
import { Err, Ok } from 'ts-results-es'
import { used_cars } from '@/../server/database/core-schema'

export default defineEventHandler(async (event) => {
  if (!event.context.session) {
    setResponseStatus(event, 401, 'You are not logged in')
    return new Err({ _tag: 'UnauthorizedError', message: 'You are not logged in' } as const)
  }
  if (!event.context.user) {
    setResponseStatus(event, 401, 'Could not find user')
    return new Err({ _tag: 'UnauthorizedError', message: 'Could not find user' } as const)
  }

  const user = event.context.user

  if (!user.selected_company_id) {
    setResponseStatus(event, 401, 'User has no selected company')
    return new Err({ _tag: 'NoSelectedCompanyError', message: 'User has no selected company' } as const)
  }

  try {
    const cars = await useDB().query.used_cars.findMany({
      where: and(
        eq(used_cars.company_id, user.selected_company_id),
      ),
    }).execute()

    return new Ok({
      _tag: 'Success',
      message: 'Used cars found',
      used_cars: cars,
    } as const)
  }
  catch (error) {
    console.error(error)
    setResponseStatus(event, 500, 'Failed to fetch used cars')
    return new Err({ _tag: 'DatabaseFetchError', message: 'Failed to fetch used cars', error } as const)
  }
})

import { and, eq } from 'drizzle-orm'
import { Err, Ok } from 'ts-results-es'
import { used_cars } from '@/../server/database/core-schema'

export default defineEventHandler(async (event) => {
  if (!event.context.session) {
    setResponseStatus(event, 401, 'You are not logged in')
    return new Err({ _tag: 'UnauthorizedError', message: 'You are not logged in' } as const)
  }
  if (!event.context.user) {
    setResponseStatus(event, 401, 'Could not find user')
    return new Err({ _tag: 'UnauthorizedError', message: 'Could not find user' } as const)
  }

  const user = event.context.user

  if (!user.selected_company_id) {
    setResponseStatus(event, 401, 'User has no selected company')
    return new Err({ _tag: 'NoSelectedCompanyError', message: 'User has no selected company' } as const)
  }

  try {
    const cars = await useDB().query.used_cars.findMany({
      where: and(
        eq(used_cars.company_id, user.selected_company_id),
      ),
    }).execute()

    return new Ok({
      _tag: 'Success',
      message: 'Used cars found',
      used_cars: cars,
    } as const)
  }
  catch (error) {
    console.error(error)
    setResponseStatus(event, 500, 'Failed to fetch used cars')
    return new Err({ _tag: 'DatabaseFetchError', message: 'Failed to fetch used cars', error } as const)
  }
})

Then I use it something like this

try {
      const response = await $fetch('/api/used-cars/all', {
        method: 'GET',
        ignoreResponseError: true,
      })

      if (response && 'value' in response) {
        return response.value.used_cars
      }
      else {
        if (response.error._tag === 'UnauthorizedError') {
          toast.add({ title: 'Du er ikke autoriseret', description: 'Du er måske ikke logget ind, eller har ikke autorisation til at oprette en prisprotokol', color: 'red' })
        }

try {
      const response = await $fetch('/api/used-cars/all', {
        method: 'GET',
        ignoreResponseError: true,
      })

      if (response && 'value' in response) {
        return response.value.used_cars
      }
      else {
        if (response.error._tag === 'UnauthorizedError') {
          toast.add({ title: 'Du er ikke autoriseret', description: 'Du er måske ikke logget ind, eller har ikke autorisation til at oprette en prisprotokol', color: 'red' })
        }

But yes, as you mentioned I do set the responseStatus. The createError is a suboptimal solution imo.

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