Handling RequestErrors status codes

[amangeot]

Hello, I have been using this middleware for a while without any problem so far. I'm curious how one can handle request errors such as a 502 Bad Gateway globally, in order to differentiate connection issues, from bad gateways.

For example, below is a 502 Bad Gateway, logging actions via a middleware coming after redux-api-middleware.

How can one access the response status code (502) inside a middleware?

Thank you,

[nason]

Hi @amangeot, three thoughts:

1. What you're seeing here is a design decision that would be changed by https://github.com/agraboso/redux-api-middleware/pull/175

   • Right now, if a request fails due to network error or malformed request a second REQUEST type will be dispatched with an error flag. With that change, an ERROR type would be dispatched.

2. A fetch option was recently added that would allow you to catch specific response codes more easily -- https://github.com/agraboso/redux-api-middleware#rsaafetch

3. You could use a custom payload function like https://github.com/agraboso/redux-api-middleware#failure-type-descriptors

Please let me know if any of these were helpful!

[amangeot]

Thank you @nason for the v3, it looks easier to catch network errors from failure type descriptors

Do you have a suggestion on how to refactor network error handling, for example by checking if the fetch response is undefined, without having to edit the 112 RSAA definitions we have?

Can we inject fetch option via a middleware for instance?

[amangeot]

I went for a middleware to work on RSAA failure type descriptor's meta, which I intercept later with another middleware to handle errors. Here is the code that works with v3 fetch errors, with failure types being dispatched in network failures:

import { RSAA } from 'redux-api-middleware'

import { FETCH_FAILURE } from './apiMiddlewareExtension.constants'

const REQUEST_TYPE_DESCRIPTOR = 0
const SUCCESS_TYPE_DESCRIPTOR = 1
const FAILURE_TYPE_DESCRIPTOR = 2

/**
 * Inject meta field to intercept fetch failing (no response) on RSAA actions
 * *
 * For failure type descriptor, see
 * @see {@link https://github.com/agraboso/redux-api-middleware#failure-type-descriptors|GitHub}
 */
export default function apiMiddlewareExtension ({ dispatch, getState }) {
  return (next) => async (action) => {
    if (RSAA in action) {
      const failureDescriptor = action[RSAA].types[FAILURE_TYPE_DESCRIPTOR]
      const meta = failureDescriptor.meta

      return next({
        [RSAA]: {
          ...action[RSAA],
          types: [
            action[RSAA].types[REQUEST_TYPE_DESCRIPTOR],
            action[RSAA].types[SUCCESS_TYPE_DESCRIPTOR],
            {
              ...(typeof failureDescriptor === 'string' ? { type: failureDescriptor } : failureDescriptor),
              meta: (action, payload, res) => {
                const metaToInject = !res ? { [FETCH_FAILURE]: true } : undefined

                if (typeof meta === 'function') return { ...meta(action, payload, res), ...(metaToInject || {}) }
                else if (meta) return { ...meta, ...(metaToInject || {}) }
                else return metaToInject
              }
            }
          ]
        }
      })
    }

    return next(action)
  }
}