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fix(backend): Add missing details to backend API errors (#2421)
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This was caused by API errors beeing parsed twice. Once in the response
error handling and again when initializing a new ClerkAPIResponseError.
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Nikpolik committed Jan 8, 2024
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions .changeset/lucky-snails-help.md
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'@clerk/backend': patch
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Fixed a bug where backend API responses where missing error details. This was caused by parsing the errors twice once in the response error handling code and again when initializing the ClerkAPIResponseError.
12 changes: 11 additions & 1 deletion packages/backend/src/api/factory.test.ts
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});

test('executes a failed backend API request and parses the error response', async assert => {
const mockErrorPayload = { code: 'whatever_error', message: 'whatever error', meta: {} };
const mockErrorPayload = {
code: 'whatever_error',
message: 'whatever error',
long_message: 'some long message',
meta: {
param_name: 'whatever_param',
},
};
const traceId = 'trace_id_123';
fakeFetch = sinon.stub(runtime, 'fetch');
fakeFetch.onCall(0).returns(jsonNotOk({ errors: [mockErrorPayload], clerk_trace_id: traceId }));
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assert.equal(e.clerkError, true);
assert.equal(e.status, 422);
assert.equal(e.errors[0].code, 'whatever_error');
assert.equal(e.errors[0].message, 'whatever error');
assert.equal(e.errors[0].longMessage, 'some long message');
assert.equal(e.errors[0].meta.paramName, 'whatever_param');
}

assert.ok(
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18 changes: 11 additions & 7 deletions packages/backend/src/api/request.ts
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* TODO: Simply remove this wrapper and the ClerkAPIResponseError before the v5 release.
*/
const withLegacyReturn =
(cb: any): LegacyRequestFunction =>
(cb: (...args: any) => Promise<ClerkBackendApiResponse<any>>): LegacyRequestFunction =>
async (...args) => {
// @ts-ignore
const { data, errors, status, statusText, clerkTraceId } = await cb<T>(...args);
if (errors === null) {
return data;
const response = await cb(...args);
if (response.errors === null) {
return response.data;
} else {
throw new ClerkAPIResponseError(statusText || '', {
data: errors,
const { errors, clerkTraceId } = response;
// TODO: To be removed with withLegacyReturn
const { status, statusText } = response as any;
const error = new ClerkAPIResponseError(statusText || '', {
data: [],
status: status || '',
clerkTraceId,
});
error.errors = errors;
throw error;
}
};

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