switch to use .json instead of .send

Signed-off-by: Emma Indal <emma.indahl@gmail.com>

plugins/search-backend-node/api-report.md

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 /// <reference types="node" />
 
 import { Config } from '@backstage/config';
-import { CustomErrorBase } from '@backstage/errors';
 import { DocumentCollatorFactory } from '@backstage/plugin-search-common';
 import { DocumentDecoratorFactory } from '@backstage/plugin-search-common';
 import { DocumentTypeInfo } from '@backstage/plugin-search-common';
@@ -115,7 +114,10 @@ export class LunrSearchEngineIndexer extends BatchSearchEngineIndexer {
 }
 
 // @public
-export class MissingIndexError extends CustomErrorBase {}
+export class MissingIndexError extends Error {
+  constructor(message?: string, cause?: Error | unknown);
+  readonly cause?: Error | undefined;
+}
 
 // @public
 export class NewlineDelimitedJsonCollatorFactory

plugins/search-backend-node/src/errors.ts

@@ -14,10 +14,24 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
-import { CustomErrorBase } from '@backstage/errors';
+import { isError } from '@backstage/errors';
 
 /**
  *  Failed to query documents for index that does not exist.
  *  @public
  */
-export class MissingIndexError extends CustomErrorBase {}
+export class MissingIndexError extends Error {
+  /**
+   * An inner error that caused this error to be thrown, if any.
+   */
+  readonly cause?: Error | undefined;
+
+  constructor(message?: string, cause?: Error | unknown) {
+    super(message);
+
+    Error.captureStackTrace?.(this, this.constructor);
+
+    this.name = this.constructor.name;
+    this.cause = isError(cause) ? cause : undefined;
+  }
+}