Why there is no error thrown with Strophe.js?

Question

Example code:

var connection = null;

function onConnect(status) {
    im_a_big_error.log('wtf');
    // Why it doesn't throw me an error here ??                                                                                                                                                                                                
}

$().ready(function() {
    connection = new Strophe.Connection('http://localhost:8080/http-bind');
    connection.connect('admin@localhost', 'admin', onConnect);
});

It doesn't throw me an error in my Chrome console.

Do you have an idea to resolve this issue?

Answer 1

Yes, Strophe often catch errors by itself and currently doesn't provide any ability to get connection error information. While error catching is ok, the impossibility of catching errors by yourself is not very good. But you can fix it with the following code:

$().ready(function() {
    connection = new Strophe.Connection('http://localhost:8080/http-bind');
    connection._hitError = function (reqStatus) {
        this.errors++;
        Strophe.warn("request errored, status: " + reqStatus + ", 
                number of errors: " + this.errors);
        if (this.errors > 4) this._onDisconnectTimeout();
        myErrorHandler(reqStatus, this.errors);
    };
    connection.connect('admin@localhost', 'admin', onConnect);
});

where myErrorHandler is your custom connection error handler.