Unified Errors Handler

Unified Errors Handler is an advanced error-handling library for Node.js. It standardizes error structures across Express.js, NestJS, and databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. It simplifies debugging, improves consistency, and enhances error logging.

Unified Errors Handler simplifies error handling in Node.js, Express, and NestJS. Supports Sequelize, TypeORM, Objection.js, Mongoose, and Knex.js.

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Content

1. Installation
2. How to Use Unified Errors Handler in Node.js
   1. ExpressJS Middleware
   2. Custom ExpressJS Middleware
   3. NestJS Exception Filter
   4. Options
3. Errors Structure
4. General Exceptions
5. SQL Database Exceptions
6. No SQL Database Exceptions
7. Custom Exceptions
8. Logging
9. See supported ORMs
10. Tests
11. Support and Suggestions

Installation

$ npm install unified-errors-handler

How to Use Unified Errors Handler in Node.js

• ExpressJS Middleware

const express = require('express');
const { expressExceptionHandler } = require('unified-errors-handler');
const app = express();
/**
  response in case of error will be
  {
    errors: [
      {
        code: 'USER_NOT_FOUND',
        message: 'user not found',
      },
    ],
  }
  with status code 404
*/
app.post('/test', function (req, res) {
    const isFound = // ...
    if (isFound) {
      // return response
    } else {
      throw new NotFoundException([
        {
          code: 'USER_NOT_FOUND',
          message: 'user not found',
        },
      ]);
    }
});

app.use(expressExceptionHandler());

• Custom ExpressJS Middleware

const express = require('express');
const { exceptionMapper } = require('unified-errors-handler');

const app = express();
/**
  response in case of error will be
  {
    errors: [
      {
        code: 'USER_NOT_FOUND',
        message: 'user not found',
      },
    ],
  }
  with status code 404
*/
app.post('/test', function (req, res) {
    const isFound = // ...
    if (isFound) {
      // return response
    } else {
      throw new NotFoundException([
        {
          code: 'USER_NOT_FOUND',
          message: 'user not found',
        },
      ]);
    }
});

app.use((err: Error, req: any, res: any, next: any) => {
    const mappedError = exceptionMapper(err);
   
    res.status(mappedError.statusCode).send({
      errors: mappedError.serializeErrors(),
    });
  });

• NestJS Exception Filter

const { exceptionMapper } = require('unified-errors-handler');

@Catch()
export class AllExceptionsFilter implements ExceptionFilter {
  catch(exception: unknown, host: ArgumentsHost) {
    const ctx = host.switchToHttp();
    const response = ctx.getResponse<Response>();

    const error = exceptionMapper(exception);
    const statusCode = error.statusCode;
    response.status(statusCode).json({
      errors: error.serializeErrors(),
    });
  }
}

• Options

You can add options to (enable/disable) parsing for database errors (depends on your ORM) this is disabled by default, See supported ORMs

const options = {
    mapDBExceptions: true,            // deprecated
    parseSequelizeExceptions: true,
    parseMongooseExceptions: true,
    parseTypeORMExceptions: true,
    parseObjectionJSExceptions: true,
    parseKnexJSExceptions: false,
}

expressExceptionHandler(options)
// or 
const mappedError = exceptionMapper(err, options);

Unified Structure

{
   errors: [{
      fields: ['name', 'password'],   // optional
      code: 'YOUR_CODE',
      message: 'your message'
      details: {    // optional - more details about error
        key: value 
      }
   }]
}

Exceptions

1. BadRequestException

• Status code - 400

throw new BadRequestException({
  fields: ['password'],        // optional
  code: 'INVALID_PASSWORD',    // optional
  message: 'invalid password'
  details: {                  // optional
   // ... more details
  }
});

2. UnauthorizedException

• Status code - 401

throw new UnauthorizedException({
  code: 'UNAUTHORIZED',
  message: 'You are not authorized'
});

3. ForbiddenException

• Status code - 403

throw new ForbiddenException({
  code: 'FORBIDDEN',
  message: 'You have no access'
});

4. NotFoundException

• Status code - 404

throw new NotFoundException([
  {
     code: 'USER_NOT_FOUND',
     message: 'user not found',
  },
]);

5. ServerException

• Status code - 500

throw new ServerException();

SQL Database Exceptions

1. UniqueViolationException

• Status code - 400

// output
[
  {
    fields: ['name'],
    code: 'DATA_ALREADY_EXIST',
    message: 'name already exist',
  },
]

2. ForeignKeyViolationException

• Status code - 400

// output
// foreign key is not exist as primary key in another table
// trying insert value with invalid foreign key
[
  code: 'INVALID_DATA',
  message: 'Invalid data',
  details: {
    reason: 'violates foreign key constraint',
    constraint: 'pet_user_id_foreign',
  },
]
// foreign key has reference in another table 
[
  code: 'DATA_HAS_REFERENCE',
  message: 'Data has reference',
  details: {
    reason: 'violates foreign key constraint',
    constraint: 'pet_user_id_foreign',
  },
]

3. NotNullViolationException

• Status code - 400

// output
[
  {
    fields: ['age'],
    code: 'INVALID_DATA',
    message: 'age is invalid',
    details: { reason: 'age must not be NULL' },
  },
]

4. CheckViolationException

• Status code - 400
• Example - Invalid enum value

// output
[{
  code: 'INVALID_VALUES',
  message: 'Invalid Values',
  details: {
    constraint: 'user_gender_check',
  },
}]

5. OutOfRangeViolationException

• Status code - 400
• Example - numeric value out of range

// output
[{
  {
    code: 'OUT_OF_RANGE',
    message: 'Out of range',
  },
}]

No SQL Database Exceptions

1. MongoDBUniqueViolationException

• Status code - 400

// output
[
  {
    fields: ['name'],
    values: ['Ahmed'],
    code: 'DATA_ALREADY_EXIST',
    message: 'name already exist',
  },
]

2. MongooseValidationException

• Status code - 400

// output
[
  // field is required
  {
    fields: ['age'],
    message: 'Path `age` is required.',
    code: 'MONGODB_VALIDATION_ERROR',
    details: { 
      reason: 'age is required', 
      violate: 'required_validation'
    },
  },
  // field's value violate enum values
  {
    fields: ['gender'],
    message: '`MALEE` is not a valid enum value for path `gender`.',
    code: 'MONGODB_VALIDATION_ERROR',
    details: { 
      reason: "gender's value must be one of MALE, FEMALE", 
      violate: 'enum_validation'
    },
  },
  // field's value violate max value
  {
    fields: ['age'],
    message: 'Path `age` (300) is more than maximum allowed value (50).',
    code: 'MONGODB_VALIDATION_ERROR',
    details: { 
      reason: `age's value exceed maximum allowed value (50)`, 
      violate: 'max_validation'
    },
  },
  // field's value violate min value
  {
    fields: ['age'],
    message: 'Path `age` (3) is less than minimum allowed value (20).',
    code: 'MONGODB_VALIDATION_ERROR',
    details: { 
      reason: `age's value less than minimum allowed value (20)`, 
      violate: 'min_validation'
    },
  },
  // field's value violate type of field
  {
    fields: ['age'],
    message: 'age is invalid',
    code: 'MONGODB_CASTING_ERROR',
  },
]

Custom Exceptions

You can create your own exceptions by extending BaseException.

export class MyCustomException extends BaseException {
  statusCode = 400;

  constructor(private message: string) {
    super(message);
    Object.setPrototypeOf(this, MyCustomException.prototype);
  }

  serializeErrors() {
    return [{
      message,
      code: 'CUSTOM_CODE'
    }];
  }
}

Logging

1. ConsoleLogger

const options = {
  loggerOptions: {
    console: {
      format: ':time :message', // optional - default message only
      colored: true,    // optional - default no color
    },
  },
}

expressExceptionHandler(options)
// or 
const mappedError = exceptionMapper(err, options);

2. CustomLogger

implement ILogger interface

import { ILogger } from 'unified-errors-handler';

class CustomLogger implements ILogger {
  log(error: any): void {
    console.log(error.message);
  }
}

// in options pass this object
const options = {
  loggerOptions: {
    custom: new CustomLogger(),
  },
}

expressExceptionHandler(options)
// or 
const mappedError = exceptionMapper(err, options);

Supported Database and ORMs

1. MYSQL with TypeORM
2. Postgres with TypeORM
3. MYSQL with Sequelize
4. Postgres with Sequelize
5. MYSQL with ObjectionJS
6. Postgres with ObjectionJS
7. MYSQL with KnexJS
8. Postgres with KnexJS
9. MongoDB with Mongoose

Tests

To run the test suite,

1. first install the dependencies
2. rename .env.sample to .env
3. You can run docker-comose up or set your own connection URLs for postgres database and mysql database in .env
4. run npm test:

$ npm install
$ npm test

Support and Suggestions

Feel free to open issues on github.