chadcf
I’m attempting to gracefully handle failures from an api call and am struggling a bit with how to do this. Take for example the following:
case HTTPoison.get("https://url.com") do
{:ok, %HTTPoison.Response{status_code: 200, body: body}} ->
...
{:error, %HTTPoison.Error{} = error} ->
...
end
Works great for one real world test case. What I’m struggling with is two things:
- Under what circumstances does HTTPoison return :error vs :ok? I can’t find this anywhere. I don’t know if it’s possible that it would ever return :ok with a status code of 500, or if it will always return :error on any status code > 400 or what… Do I need to match on both :error as well as :ok with a status code > 400 to catch failures?
- I cannot for the life of me figure out how to test this. We’re using Bypass in our tests, and I can have it return a
Plug.Conn.respwith a 500 status code but the actual response still comes back with an :ok and not :error. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get Bypass to return an :error response.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
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NobbZ
When the server sent a reply you’ll get an
:oktuple, if the request timed out, DNS couldn’t be resolved or otherwise a connection couldn’t be established, then you’ll see:errortuple returned, also if the reply sent by the server is not parsable as HTTP.al2o3cr
The underlying Hackney library can either return
{:ok, status_code, headers, client_ref}or{:error, reason}. My interpretation of that is that you’ll get an:okreply any time the connection is sufficiently successful to have a response code from the server, and:errorwhen something goes so wrong (network failure, nonsensical server response, etc) that the response code isn’t available.wojtekmach
See the example from README where
Bypass.down/1can be used to take the TCP server down, you should get an{:error, _}response then. Your mocked response may also doProcess.sleep(:infinity), that should trigger a timeout somewhere too.