Patrik Oldsberg
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Add a `toError` utility function to `@backstage/errors` that converts unknown values to `ErrorLike` objects. If the value is already error-like it is returned as-is. Strings are used directly as the error message, and other values are stringified with a fallback to JSON.stringify to avoid unhelpful `[object Object]` messages. Non-error causes passed to `CustomErrorBase` are now converted and stored using `toError` rather than discarded. Existing `assertError` call sites across the codebase are migrated to `toError`. Signed-off-by: Patrik Oldsberg <poldsberg@gmail.com> Made-with: Cursor
search-backend-node
This plugin is part of a suite of plugins that comprise the Backstage search platform. This particular plugin is responsible for all aspects of the search indexing process, including:
- Providing connections to search engines where actual document indices live and queries can be made.
- Defining a mechanism for plugins to expose documents that they'd like to be
indexed (called
collators). - Defining a mechanism for plugins to add extra metadata to documents that the
source plugin may not be aware of (known as
decorators). - A scheduler that, at configurable intervals, compiles documents to be indexed and passes them to a search engine for indexing.
- A builder class to wire up all of the above.
- Naturally, types for all of the above.
Documentation on how to develop and improve the search platform is currently
centralized in the search plugin README.md.
For a better overview of how the search platform is put together, check the Backstage Search Architecture documentation.