Split errors into api and general

app/src/api/api.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ import bodyParser from 'body-parser';
 import express from 'express';
 
 import * as editHistoryController from './controllers/editHistoryController';
-import { RequestParameterError, UserInputError } from './errors'; 
+import { ApiParamError, ApiUserError } from './errors/api'; 
+import { DatabaseError } from './errors/general';
 import buildingsRouter from './routes/buildingsRouter';
 import extractsRouter from './routes/extractsRouter';
 import usersRouter from './routes/usersRouter';
@@ -102,16 +103,18 @@ server.use((err: any, req: express.Request, res: express.Response, next: express
     if (err != undefined) {
         console.log('Global error handler: ', err);
         
-        if (err instanceof UserInputError) {
+        if (err instanceof ApiUserError) {
             let errorMessage: string;
 
-            if(err instanceof RequestParameterError) {
+            if(err instanceof ApiParamError) {
                 errorMessage = `Problem with parameter ${err.paramName}: ${err.message}`;
             } else {
                 errorMessage = err.message;
             }
 
             res.status(400).send({ error: errorMessage });
+        } else if(err instanceof DatabaseError){
+            res.status(500).send({ error: 'Database error' });
         } else {
             res.status(500).send({ error: 'Server error' });
         }

app/src/api/controllers/editHistoryController.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import express from 'express';
 
-import { UserInputError } from '../errors';
+import { ApiParamError, ApiUserError } from '../errors/api';
+import { ArgumentError } from '../errors/general';
 import { checkRegexParam, parsePositiveIntParam, processParam } from '../parameters';
 import asyncController from "../routes/asyncController";
 import * as editHistoryService from '../services/editHistory';
@@ -13,15 +14,19 @@ const getGlobalEditHistory = asyncController(async (req: express.Request, res: e
     const count: number = processParam(req.query, 'count', parsePositiveIntParam);
 
     if(afterId != undefined && beforeId != undefined) {
-        throw new UserInputError('Cannot specify both after_id and before_id parameters');
+        throw new ApiUserError('Cannot specify both after_id and before_id parameters');
     }
 
     try {
         const result = await editHistoryService.getGlobalEditHistory(beforeId, afterId, count);
         res.send(result);
     } catch(error) {
-        console.error(error);
+        if(error instanceof ArgumentError && error.argumentName === 'count') {
-        res.send({ error: 'Database error' });
+            const apiErr = new ApiParamError(error.message, 'count');
+            throw apiErr;
+        }
+
+        throw error;
     }
 });
 

app/src/api/dataAccess/editHistory.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import db from '../../db';
 import { EditHistoryEntry } from '../../frontend/models/edit-history-entry';
+import { DatabaseError } from '../errors/general';
 
 const baseQuery = `
         SELECT
@@ -19,53 +20,69 @@ export function getHistoryAfterId(id: string, count: number): Promise<EditHistor
      * (like the other queries). The inner select is sorted in ascending order
      * so that the right rows are returned when limiting the result set.
      */
-    return db.manyOrNone(`
+    try {
-        SELECT * FROM (
+        return db.any(`
-            ${baseQuery}
+            SELECT * FROM (
-            WHERE log_id > $1
+                ${baseQuery}
-            ORDER BY revision_id ASC
+                WHERE log_id > $1
-            LIMIT $2
+                ORDER BY revision_id ASC
-        ) AS result_asc ORDER BY revision_id DESC`,
+                LIMIT $2
-        [id, count]
+            ) AS result_asc ORDER BY revision_id DESC`,
-    );
+            [id, count]
+        );
+    } catch(err) {
+        throw new DatabaseError(err);
+    }
 }
 
 export function getHistoryBeforeId(id: string, count: number): Promise<EditHistoryEntry[]> {
-    if(id == undefined) {
+    try {
+        if(id == undefined) {
             
-        return db.any(`
+            return db.any(`
-            ${baseQuery}
+                ${baseQuery}
-            ORDER BY revision_id DESC
+                ORDER BY revision_id DESC
-            LIMIT $1
+                LIMIT $1
-        `, [count]);
+            `, [count]);
             
-    } else {
+        } else {
             
-        return db.any(`
+            return db.any(`
-            ${baseQuery}
+                ${baseQuery}
-            WHERE log_id < $1
+                WHERE log_id < $1
-            ORDER BY revision_id DESC
+                ORDER BY revision_id DESC
-            LIMIT $2
+                LIMIT $2
-        `, [id, count]);
+            `, [id, count]);
+        }
+    } catch(err) {
+        throw new DatabaseError(err);
     }
 }
 
 export async function getIdOlderThan(id: string): Promise<string> {
-    const result = await db.oneOrNone<{revision_id:string}>(`
+    try {
-        SELECT MAX(log_id) as revision_id
+        const result = await db.oneOrNone<{revision_id:string}>(`
-        FROM logs
+            SELECT MAX(log_id) as revision_id
-        WHERE log_id < $1
+            FROM logs
-    `, [id]);
+            WHERE log_id < $1
+        `, [id]);
 
-    return result?.revision_id;
+        return result?.revision_id;
+    } catch(err) {
+        throw new DatabaseError(err);
+    }
 }
 
 export async function getIdNewerThan(id: string): Promise<string> {
-    const result = await db.oneOrNone<{revision_id:string}>(`
+    try {
-        SELECT MIN(log_id) as revision_id
+        const result = await db.oneOrNone<{revision_id:string}>(`
-        FROM logs
+            SELECT MIN(log_id) as revision_id
-        WHERE log_id > $1
+            FROM logs
-    `, [id]);
+            WHERE log_id > $1
+        `, [id]);
 
-    return result?.revision_id;
+        return result?.revision_id;
+    } catch(err) {
+        throw new DatabaseError(err);
+    }
 }

app/src/api/errors/api.ts

@@ -5,34 +5,40 @@
  * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41102060/typescript-extending-error-class
  */
 
-export class UserInputError extends Error {
+export class ApiUserError extends Error {
     constructor(message?: string) {
         super(message);
+        this.name = 'ApiUserError';
     }
 }
 
-export class RequestParameterError extends UserInputError {
+export class ApiParamError extends ApiUserError {
     public paramName: string;
 
-    constructor(message?: string) {
+    constructor(message?: string, paramName?: string) {
         super(message);
+        this.name = 'ApiParamError';
+        this.paramName = paramName;
     }
 }
 
-export class ParamRequiredError extends RequestParameterError {
+export class ApiParamRequiredError extends ApiParamError {
     constructor(message?: string) {
         super(message);
+        this.name = 'ApiParamRequiredError';
     }
 }
 
-export class ParamOutOfBoundsError extends RequestParameterError {
+export class ApiParamOutOfBoundsError extends ApiParamError {
     constructor(message?: string) {
         super(message);
+        this.name = 'ApiParamOutOfBoundsError';
     }
 }
 
-export class ParamInvalidFormatError extends RequestParameterError {
+export class ApiParamInvalidFormatError extends ApiParamError {
     constructor(message?: string) {
         super(message);
+        this.name = 'ApiParamInvalidFormatError';
     }
 }

app/src/api/errors/general.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+export class ArgumentError extends Error {
+    public argumentName: string;
+    constructor(message?: string, argumentName?: string) {
+        super(message);
+        this.name = 'ArgumentError';
+        this.argumentName = argumentName;
+    }
+}
+
+export class DatabaseError extends Error {
+    public detail: any;
+    constructor(detail?: string) {
+        super();
+        this.name = 'DatabaseError';
+        this.detail = detail;
+    }
+}

app/src/api/parameters.ts

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 import { strictParseInt } from '../parse';
 
-import { ParamInvalidFormatError, ParamRequiredError, RequestParameterError } from './errors';
+import { ApiParamError, ApiParamInvalidFormatError, ApiParamRequiredError } from './errors/api';
 
 
 export function processParam<T>(params: object, paramName: string, processingFn: (x: string) => T, required: boolean = false) {
     const stringValue = params[paramName];
 
     if(stringValue == undefined && required) {
-        const err = new ParamRequiredError('Parameter required but not supplied');
+        const err = new ApiParamRequiredError('Parameter required but not supplied');
         err.paramName = paramName;
         throw err;
     }
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ export function processParam<T>(params: object, paramName: string, processingFn:
     try {
         return processingFn(stringValue);
     } catch(error) {
-        if(error instanceof RequestParameterError) {
+        if(error instanceof ApiParamError) {
             error.paramName = paramName;
         }
         
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ export function parsePositiveIntParam(param: string) {
     
     const result = strictParseInt(param);
     if (isNaN(result)) {
-        throw new ParamInvalidFormatError('Invalid format: not a positive integer');
+        throw new ApiParamInvalidFormatError('Invalid format: not a positive integer');
     }
     return result;
 }
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ export function checkRegexParam(param: string, regex: RegExp): string {
     if(param == undefined) return undefined;
 
     if(param.match(regex) == undefined) {
-        throw new ParamInvalidFormatError(`Invalid format: does not match regular expression ${regex}`);
+        throw new ApiParamInvalidFormatError(`Invalid format: does not match regular expression ${regex}`);
     }
     
     return param;

app/src/api/services/__tests__/editHistory.test.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { EditHistoryEntry } from '../../../frontend/models/edit-history-entry';
 import * as editHistoryData from '../../dataAccess/editHistory'; // manually mocked
-import { UserInputError } from '../../errors';
+import { ArgumentError } from '../../errors/general';
 import { getGlobalEditHistory } from '../editHistory';
 
 jest.mock('../../dataAccess/editHistory');
@@ -28,8 +28,10 @@ describe('getGlobalEditHistory()', () => {
         [null, null],
         ['100', null],
         [null, '100']
-    ])('Should error when requesting non-positive number of records', (beforeId: string, afterId: string) => {
+    ])('Should error when requesting non-positive number of records', async (beforeId: string, afterId: string) => {
-        expect(getGlobalEditHistory(beforeId, afterId, 0)).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(UserInputError);
+        let resultPromise = getGlobalEditHistory(beforeId, afterId, 0);
+        await expect(resultPromise).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(ArgumentError);
+        await expect(resultPromise).rejects.toHaveProperty('argumentName', 'count');
     });
     
     describe('getting history before a point', () => {

app/src/api/services/editHistory.ts

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 import { EditHistoryEntry } from '../../frontend/models/edit-history-entry';
 import { decBigInt, incBigInt } from '../../helpers';
 import { getHistoryAfterId, getHistoryBeforeId, getIdNewerThan, getIdOlderThan } from '../dataAccess/editHistory';
-import { UserInputError } from '../errors';
+import { ArgumentError } from '../errors/general';
 
 async function getGlobalEditHistory(beforeId?: string, afterId?: string, count: number = 100) {
-    if(count <= 0) throw new UserInputError('cannot request less than 1 history record');
+    if(count <= 0) throw new ArgumentError('cannot request less than 1 history record', 'count');
     if(count > 100) count = 100;
 
     // limited set of records. Expected to be already ordered from newest to oldest