JSON API Errors

JSON API Errors is a collection of popular errors which is format under of JSON API Specification. More detailed in here

Getting Started

Installation

The easiest way to install json-api-error is using NPM. If you have Node.js installed, it is most likely that you have NPM installed as well.

$ npm install json-api-error

Usage

At the current implementation, json-api-error support the following common errors

• BadRequestError
• UnauthorizedError
• MalformedError
• ForbiddenError
• NotFoundError
• MethodNotAllowedError
• NotAcceptableError
• RequestTimeoutError
• UnsupportedMediaTypeError
• InternalError
• NotImplementedError
• BadGatewayError
• ServiceUnavailableError
• GatewayTimeoutError

Example

Error usage with simple detailed message

import { BadRequestError } from 'json-api-error';

throw new BadRequestError('Request is invalid');

Error usage with options

import { BadRequestError } from 'json-api-error';

throw new BadRequestError({
    id: 'BadRequestError',
    code: 'BadRequestError',
    title: 'BadRequestError',
    detail: 'The #/userName must be number'
}));

Error usage with customized your JsonApiError

import JsonApiError from 'json-api-error';

throw new JsonApiError({
    id: 'RequestEntityTooLargeError',
    status: '413',
    code: 'RequestEntityTooLargeError',
    title: 'RequestEntityTooLargeError',
    detail: 'Request Entity Too Large'
  });

AggregateJsonApiError(errors, status)

import { AggregateJsonApiError } from 'json-api-error';

throw new AggregateJsonApiError([
  new BadRequestError('Something went wrong'),
  new BadRequestError('Request is valid')
], 400);

Express Middleware - JSON API Error Handler usage

json-api-error also ships a Express middleware to handle these JSON API Errors. This middleware will catch JSON API Error and return response for your end-user as the following example format (including the status response):

{
  errors: [{
    id: 'NotFoundError',
    status: '404',
    code: 'NotFoundError',
    title: 'NotFoundError',
    detail: 'Resource was not found'
  }]
}

To use this, configure your Express app

import { jsonApiErrorHandler } from 'json-api-error/middlewares';


app.use(jsonApiErrorHandler);

Note: For best practice, please place jsonApiErrorHandler below utilized middlewares.

Options

Properties	Detail	Type	Default Value
id	a unique identifier for this particular occurrence of the problem	string	equal to error name
links	a links object, more detailed in here	object	N/A
status	the HTTP status code applicable to this problem, expressed as a string value	string	equal to HTTP code
code	an application-specific error code, expressed as a string value	string	equal to error name
title	a short, human-readable summary of the problem	string	equal to error name
detail	a human-readable explanation specific to this occurrence of the problem	string	equal to error name
source	an object containing references to the source of the error, more detailed in here	object	N/A
meta	a meta object containing non-standard meta-information about the error.	object	N/A

LICENSE

MIT