standard-bail

Makes callbacks that log and/or call the outer callback if there's an error so that you don't have to. An abstraction of the most typical kind of error handling callback.

It creates a callback that checks for an error and if there is one, it (optionally) logs it and (optionally) passes it back to the done function. If there isn't, it calls the success handler function you've defined.

Basically, you get to skip writing

if (error) {
  log(error, error.stack);
  outerDone(error);
}
else {
  …
}

and get to just write whatever was in the else. (Obviously, don't use this if you have to handle an error in a special or different way.)

It's just a way to DRY up callbacks a bit.

Installation

npm install standard-bail

Usage

Instead of:

function doAThing(outerDone) {
  someAPI(aCallback);

  function aCallback(error, result, otherThing) {
    if (error) {
      log(error, error.stack);
      outerDone(error);
    }
    else {
      // Use result and otherThing in case in which someAPI call succeeded.
    }
  }

You can do:

var StandardBail = require('standard-bail');
var sb = StandardBail({
  log: myLogFunction // optional
});

function doAThing(outerDone) {
  someAPI(sb(successHandler, outerDone));

  function successHandler(result, otherThing, done) {
      // Use result and otherThing in case in which someAPI call succeeded.
  }
}

Here, successHandlers doesn't worry about errors. sb will have already handled it in a way a jillion other errors are handled: by logging it and/or passing it to done.

StandardBail takes an opts object that currently has one property: log. Use it to tell it which function, if any, it should be logging with. The function should be ready to be passed two parameters: a message string and an error stack. It returns an sb function you can use to create your callbacks.

sb has two parameters, success and outerDone.

All are optional can be undefined or null. You really should have either a outerDone or a log, though, in order to avoid silent failures.

success will be passed all of the non-error parameters passed to the callback as well as whatever outerDone you provided.

Tests

Run tests with make test.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Jim Kang

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