fix: error serialization (#384)

Co-authored-by: Rishabh Poddar <[email protected]>

Author: porcellus

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [12.0.0] - 2022-09-14
 
+### Bug fix:
+
+-   Makes `SuperTokensError` extend the built-in `Error` class to fix serialization issues.
+
 ### Changed
 
 -   Made the `email` parameter option in `unverifyEmail`, `revokeEmailVerificationTokens`, `isEmailVerified`, `verifyEmailUsingToken`, `createEmailVerificationToken` of the `EmailVerification` recipe.

lib/build/error.d.ts

@@ -13,12 +13,11 @@
  * under the License.
  */
 
-export default class SuperTokensError {
+export default class SuperTokensError extends Error {
     private static errMagic = "ndskajfasndlfkj435234krjdsa";
     static BAD_INPUT_ERROR: "BAD_INPUT_ERROR" = "BAD_INPUT_ERROR";
 
     public type: string;
-    public message: string;
     public payload: any;
 
     // this variable is used to identify which
@@ -44,8 +43,8 @@ export default class SuperTokensError {
                   payload: undefined;
               }
     ) {
+        super(options.message);
         this.type = options.type;
-        this.message = options.message;
         this.payload = options.payload;
         this.errMagic = SuperTokensError.errMagic;
     }

lib/build/error.js

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+const assert = require("assert");
+const { default: SuperTokensError } = require("../lib/build/error");
+
+describe("SuperTokensError", () => {
+    it("should serialize with the proper message", () => {
+        const err = new SuperTokensError({ type: SuperTokensError.BAD_INPUT_ERROR, message: "test message" });
+
+        assert.strictEqual(err.toString(), "Error: test message");
+    });
+});