Actions: status code expected to be string in error responses from handler

[dminkovsky]

When my handler returns an error to Hasura like:

{
    "code": 400,
    "message": "\"password\" length must be at least 8 characters long"
}

I get this GraphQL response from Hasura:

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "extensions": {
        "internal": {
          "error": "unexpected response",
          "response": {
            "status": 400,
            "body": {
              "code": 400,
              "message": "\"password\" length must be at least 8 characters long"
            },
            "headers": [
              {
                "value": "Origin",
                "name": "Vary"
              },
              {
                "value": "true",
                "name": "Access-Control-Allow-Credentials"
              },
              {
                "value": "application/json; charset=utf-8",
                "name": "Content-Type"
              },
              {
                "value": "79",
                "name": "Content-Length"
              },
              {
                "value": "W/\"4f-drjEwWPRkWE+5vLBcl+Dmp174R0\"",
                "name": "ETag"
              },
              {
                "value": "Tue, 09 Jun 2020 20:48:28 GMT",
                "name": "Date"
              },
              {
                "value": "keep-alive",
                "name": "Connection"
              }
            ]
          },
          "request": {
            "body": {
              "session_variables": {
                "x-hasura-role": "admin"
              },
              "input": {
                "username": "bill",
                "password": "orr"
              },
              "action": {
                "name": "createAccount"
              }
            },
            "url": "http://host.docker.internal:3010/auth/register",
            "headers": []
          }
        },
        "path": "$.code",
        "code": "parse-failed"
      },
      "message": "parsing Text failed, expected String, but encountered Number"
    }
  ]
}

Looks like Hasura is expecting $.code to be to be a String, which complicates my code and seems wrong? Wouldn't it be better if it it could handle a Number?

[iasci]

@dminkovsky code property needs to be a string.

{
    "code": "400",
    "message": "\"password\" length must be at least 8 characters long"
}

https://hasura.io/docs/1.0/graphql/core/actions/action-handlers.html#returning-an-error-response

[efstathiosntonas]

When using google cloud functions as a handler the http error always returns a number thus:

{
    "errors": [
        {
            "extensions": {
                "internal": {
                    "error": "unexpected response",
                    "response": {
                        "status": 400,
                        "body": {
                            "message": {
                                "status": "ALREADY_EXISTS",
                                "message": "blablabla"
                            }
                        },
                        "headers": [
                            {
                                "value": "application/json; charset=utf-8",
                                "name": "Content-Type"
                            },
                            {
                                "value": "xxxx",
                                "name": "Etag"
                            },
                            {
                                "value": "xxxx",
                                "name": "Function-Execution-Id"
                            },
                            {
                                "value": "xxxxx",
                                "name": "X-Cloud-Trace-Context"
                            },
                            {
                                "value": "Wed, 10 Nov 2021 13:27:09 GMT",
                                "name": "Date"
                            },
                            {
                                "value": "Google Frontend",
                                "name": "Server"
                            },
                            {
                                "value": "170",
                                "name": "Content-Length"
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    "request": {
                        "body": {
                            "session_variables": {
                                "x-hasura-role": "admin",
                                "x-hasura-user-id": "xxxx"
                            },
                            "input": {
                                "target_id": "xxxx",
                                "report_description": null,
                                "report_type": "inappropriatePhoto",
                                "initiator_id": "xxxxx"
                            },
                            "action": {
                                "name": "create_profile_report"
                            }
                        },
                        "url": "https://us-central1-xxxxxxxxxxx.cloudfunctions.net/action-profile-create_profile_report",
                        "headers": []
                    }
                },
                "path": "$.message",
                "code": "parse-failed"
            },
            "message": "parsing Text failed, expected String, but encountered Object"

is there a workaround for this? I cannot display the proper error to the user

edit: this is the throw error:

import { HttpsError } from "firebase-functions/lib/providers/https";

....

        throw new HttpsError(
          "already-exists",
          "custom error message"
        );

[efstathiosntonas]

Any updates on this one? Why we can't use a number (or both) and have to do sorcery on aws lambdas and gcp functions in order to bring back a string? Also why can't we support objects on message eg:

"response": {
    "body": {
        "message": {
            "code": "400",
            "errors": {
                "inner": [
                    {
                        "message": "oops!",
                        "path": "test"
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    },
    "headers": [
        {
            "name": "content-type",
            "value": "application/json; charset=utf-8"
        },
        {
            "name": "cache-control",
            "value": "no-cache"
        },
        {
            "name": "content-length",
            "value": "81"
        },
        {
            "name": "Date",
            "value": "Tue, 30 Aug 2022 06:53:59 GMT"
        },
        {
            "name": "Connection",
            "value": "keep-alive"
        },
        {
            "name": "Keep-Alive",
            "value": "timeout=5"
        }
    ],
    "status": 400
}