Adjust UnhandledErrorForwarder to not silence error

- Changes related to revew

Signed-off-by: Philipp Hugenroth <philipph@spotify.com>

packages/core-api/src/apis/implementations/ErrorApi/index.ts

@@ -16,4 +16,3 @@
 
 export { ErrorAlerter } from './ErrorAlerter';
 export { ErrorApiForwarder } from './ErrorApiForwarder';
-export { UnhandledErrorForwarder } from './UnhandledErrorForwarder';

packages/core-app-api/src/apis/implementations/ErrorApi/UnhandledErrorForwarder.ts

@@ -16,21 +16,11 @@ import { ErrorApi } from '../../definitions';
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 export class UnhandledErrorForwarder {
-  static forward(errorApi: ErrorApi) {
+  static forward(errorApi: ErrorApi, hidden = false) {
     window.addEventListener(
       'unhandledrejection',
       (e: PromiseRejectionEvent) => {
-        errorApi.post(
-          {
-            name: `Unhandled Rejection: ${e.reason.message}`,
-            message: e.reason.message,
-            stack: e.reason.stack,
-          },
-          { hidden: true },
-        );
-        // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
-        console.error(e.reason);
-        e.preventDefault();
+        errorApi.post(e.reason as Error, { hidden });
       },
     );
   }

packages/core-app-api/src/apis/implementations/ErrorApi/index.ts

@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@
 
 export { ErrorAlerter } from './ErrorAlerter';
 export { ErrorApiForwarder } from './ErrorApiForwarder';
+export { UnhandledErrorForwarder } from './UnhandledErrorForwarder';

packages/core-app-api/src/app/defaultApis.ts

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ import {
   UrlPatternDiscovery,
   SamlAuth,
   OneLoginAuth,
+  UnhandledErrorForwarder,
 } from '../apis';
 
 import {
@@ -67,8 +68,11 @@ export const defaultApis = [
   createApiFactory({
     api: errorApiRef,
     deps: { alertApi: alertApiRef },
-    factory: ({ alertApi }) =>
-      new ErrorAlerter(alertApi, new ErrorApiForwarder()),
+    factory: ({ alertApi }) => {
+      const errorApi = new ErrorAlerter(alertApi, new ErrorApiForwarder());
+      UnhandledErrorForwarder.forward(errorApi);
+      return errorApi;
+    },
   }),
   createApiFactory({
     api: storageApiRef,

packages/core/src/api-wrappers/defaultApis.ts

@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ import {
   oneloginAuthApiRef,
   OneLoginAuth,
   oidcAuthApiRef,
-  UnhandledErrorForwarder,
 } from '@backstage/core-api';
 
 import OAuth2Icon from '@material-ui/icons/AcUnit';
@@ -65,11 +64,8 @@ export const defaultApis = [
   createApiFactory({
     api: errorApiRef,
     deps: { alertApi: alertApiRef },
-    factory: ({ alertApi }) => {
-      const errorApi = new ErrorAlerter(alertApi, new ErrorApiForwarder());
-      UnhandledErrorForwarder.forward(errorApi);
-      return errorApi;
-    },
+    factory: ({ alertApi }) =>
+      new ErrorAlerter(alertApi, new ErrorApiForwarder()),
   }),
   createApiFactory({
     api: storageApiRef,