openui5-error-collector

This library collects javascript errors and can send them to a backend, if errors need to be logged and saved for further analysis:

• vanilla js errors (reference, syntax, type, etc)
• Promises with unhandled rejections
• UI5 log events from sap/base/Log
• errors from Report API

Demo

You can check out a live demo here:

https://mauriciolauffer.github.io/openui5-error-collector/demo/index.html

Project Structure

• demo - Library's live demo
• dist - Distribution folder which contains the library ready to use
• src - Development folder
• test - Testing framework for the library

Getting started

Installation

Install openui5-error-collector as an npm module

$ npm install openui5-error-collector

How to use

Import openui5-error-collector to your UI5 application as a regular javascript file. You should import it before sap-ui-bootstrap to capture UI5 bootstrap errors as well.

<script async src="dist/ui5ErrorCollector.min.js"></script>
<script async id="sap-ui-bootstrap" src="/resources/sap-ui-core.js" ... ></script>

Once imported, all errors will be automatically captured. It also exposes a global variable ui5ErrorCollector, eg, window.ui5ErrorCollector which can be used to get the errors and to set the details to send them to a backend server.

Sending errors to a backend

Developers can send all errors to a backend server setting serverUrl with method ui5ErrorCollector.setConfiguration. Once serverUrl is set, errors'll be sent to it using navigator.sendBeacon (this is not supported by IE11).

ui5ErrorCollector.setConfiguration({
  serverUrl: 'https://my-backend-server.com'
});

To make it compatible with IE11, or to add any extra logic when synchronizing (transform the payload, send to multiple backends, etc), a callback onSyncHook can be passed to method ui5ErrorCollector.setConfiguration. This'll replace the default behaviour and use the provided callback onSyncHook rather than navigator.sendBeacon.

/**
 * Callback provided to replace default sync with backend server
 *
 * @param {string} serverUrl - Server URL
 * @param {UI5ErrorLogEvent[]} errors - List of captured errors, same as ui5ErrorCollector.getErrors() results
 */
function myCustomOnSyncHook(serverUrl, errors) {
  // Go crazy, do whatever you wanna here...
  const payload = JSON.stringify(errors);
  fetch(serverUrl, {body: payload, method: 'POST'});
  $.ajax(serverUrl, {body: payload, method: 'POST'});
}

ui5ErrorCollector.setConfiguration({
  serverUrl: 'https://my-backend-server.com',
  onSyncHook: myCustomOnSyncHook
});

Retrieving errors

Mehod ui5ErrorCollector.getErrors will return all captured errors.

ui5ErrorCollector.getErrors(); // Which returns an array of the following object:

/**
* @type {object}
* @property {string} type - Log event type
* @property {string} timestamp - When event was logged
* @property {string} uri - Where event was logged
* @property {?string} stack - Error stack
* @property {string} message - Error message
* @property {?string} component - UI5 Log component
* @property {number} level - Log level
* @property {?number} elapsedTimestamp - Elapsed time since page load
* @property {?string} filename - File which triggered the error
*/

// Some data sample:
[
  {
      "type": "error",
      "timestamp": "2022-02-14T05:59:02.987Z",
      "uri": "http://localhost:3000/test/webapp/index.html",
      "stack": "TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'substring')\n    at http://localhost:3000/test/webapp/index.html:30:40",
      "message": "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'substring')",
      "component": null,
      "level": 1,
      "elapsedTimestamp": 755.1999999880791,
      "filename": "http://localhost:3000/test/webapp/index.html"
  },
  {
      "type": "deprecation",
      "timestamp": "2022-02-14T05:59:03.294Z",
      "uri": "http://localhost:3000/test/webapp/index.html",
      "stack": null,
      "message": "Synchronous XMLHttpRequest on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to the end user's experience. For more help, check https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/.",
      "component": "XMLHttpRequestSynchronousInNonWorkerOutsideBeforeUnload",
      "level": 1,
      "elapsedTimestamp": null,
      "filename": "https://openui5.hana.ondemand.com/resources/sap-ui-core.js"
  },
  {
      "type": "ui5",
      "timestamp": "2022-02-14T05:59:03.880Z",
      "uri": "http://localhost:3000/test/webapp/index.html",
      "stack": "Error: failed to load JavaScript resource: openui5/errorcollector/Component-preload.js\n    at mapUi5LogEntry (http://localhost:3000/src/ui5ErrorCollector.js:39:17)\n    at Object.logUi5LogEntry [as onLogEntry] (http://localhost:3000/src/ui5ErrorCollector.js:26:24)\n    at Object.onLogEntry (https://openui5.hana.ondemand.com/resources/sap-ui-core.js:124:143)\n    at f (https://openui5.hana.ondemand.com/resources/sap-ui-core.js:135:551)\n    at Object.L.error (https://openui5.hana.ondemand.com/resources/sap-ui-core.js:126:27)\n    at h.error (https://openui5.hana.ondemand.com/resources/sap-ui-core.js:141:109)\n    at HTMLScriptElement.p (https://openui5.hana.ondemand.com/resources/sap-ui-core.js:60:413)",
      "message": "failed to load JavaScript resource: openui5/errorcollector/Component-preload.js",
      "component": "sap.ui.ModuleSystem",
      "level": 1,
      "elapsedTimestamp": null,
      "filename": null
  },
  {
      "type": "unhandledrejection",
      "timestamp": "2022-02-14T05:59:05.316Z",
      "uri": "http://localhost:3000/test/webapp/index.html",
      "stack": null,
      "message": 12345,
      "component": null,
      "level": 1,
      "elapsedTimestamp": 3084.199999988079,
      "filename": null
  }
]

Author

Mauricio Lauffer