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Reza
Reza

Reputation: 19843

What is the correct way of terminating firebase function with error when using async/await

I have a function like below

export const detectClient = functions.https.onRequest(async (request, response) => {
   try
   {
      const data = await foo();
      return response.status(200).send(data);
   }
   catch(err) {
      throw new functions.https.HttpsError('internal', 'error', err);
   }
}

The issue is when error happens firebase function doesn't terminate

If I use

 return response.status(500).end('error');

it will terminate correctly.

So I am not sure what is the correct way and if I need to use response.status(500) what is the usage of throw new functions.https.HttpsError

Upvotes: 0

Views: 468

Answers (1)

Doug Stevenson
Doug Stevenson

Reputation: 317467

You are confusing error handling for callable functions with error handling for HTTP functions. The function you're showing is an HTTP type function (because it's declared with functions.https.onRequest), which doesn't use the error handling conventions as callable functions. For HTTP type functions, you should explicitly send the response as you've shown in your question.

Upvotes: 3

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