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fix: Pull Error's name from constructor, not Error itself #372

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Fixes: #350

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lib/parsers.js Outdated
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ module.exports.parseText = function parseText(message, kwargs) {

module.exports.parseError = function parseError(err, kwargs, cb) {
utils.parseStack(err, function(frames) {
var name = err.name + '';
var name = err.constructor.name + '';
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Should it not be:

var name = (err.name || err.constructor.name) + '';

That way if someone sets a local name property, that is prioritized over going up the constructor chain?

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If one won't set err.name manually, then it defaults to Error, which will cause the code to never make it through the OR operator. Therefore err.constructor.name will always be skipped in this scenario.

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How about:

var name = {}.hasOwnProperty.call(err, 'name') ?
  err.name : err.constructor.name;

My interest is in maintaining the behavior where someone has set err.name manually; I'd like this to keep working without them having to keep up to date w/ the changelog.

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Got it. Updated and added additional tests covering this cases.

@kamilogorek kamilogorek force-pushed the error-name branch 2 times, most recently from 16110a7 to de24ed9 Compare September 19, 2017 10:05
@kamilogorek kamilogorek merged commit 443ef26 into master Sep 20, 2017
@kamilogorek kamilogorek deleted the error-name branch September 20, 2017 09:07
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ module.exports.parseText = function parseText(message, kwargs) {

module.exports.parseError = function parseError(err, kwargs, cb) {
utils.parseStack(err, function(frames) {
var name = err.name + '';
var name =
({}.hasOwnProperty.call(err, 'name') ? err.name : err.constructor.name) + '';
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Please use Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call() since you don't create a new object first

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Thanks for pointing that out. However, it's such a micro-optimization, which won't make any difference ever (this object will be collected by GC anyway), that I'll just patch it while working on something else and won't create a separate PR for it. We also use {}. notation in other places, and I prefer code consistency over small performance gains :)

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