Parameterize HttpApi base errorSchema

[Avaq]

Type

• Refactor
• Feature
• Bug Fix
• Optimization
• Documentation Update

Description

This allows users to customise how HttpApiDecodeErrors are represented on the wire, enabling the use of HttpApi for wire protocols that don't follow the Tagged Error approach to encoding errors.

Related

• Closes Customizing HttpApiDecodeError responses #5465

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[gcanti]

I'm not sure this will work as intended, in handlerToRoute within HttpApiBuilder.ts there's a HttpApiDecodeError.refailParseError, which makes me think the error logic is fixed

[Avaq]

@gcanti yes -- it converts ParseError to HttpApiDecodeError. But at a later point, the (now overridable) schema is used to encode that HttpApiDecodeError for the wire. So no matter the origin of the HttpApiDecodeError, the schema is still going to work, as far as I understand it.

At least in my limited testing, it worked for both the OpenApi output and the encoding of Decode Errors.

[gcanti]

I see, I'll let @tim-smart chime in then

[Avaq]

I initially worked on a version where the user-supplied type of the encoded HttpApiDecodeError was threaded as a generic type through the HttpApp, but eventually found that this wasn't necessary.

And the user supplied schema doesn't even need to be lossless, it's fine to "encode" every HttpApiDecodeError to the value 42 and just have a decoder that always fails, as long as there's a schema for 42 added with addError. That way the HttpClient will be able to decode the weirdly encoded errors by just failing over to the schema that's able to decode it, as with any Union decoder.