How to properly handle errors

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1

Hi,

The documentation is not clear about how to handle errors. Although there is this here PDF.js Express Viewer Events | Documentation (pdfjs.express), this call is never triggered as per my tests.

Example:

  • Setup the WebViewer as per the docs above
  • Subscribe to the loaderror event
  • Pass in a wrong url to the parameter initialDoc. This returns a 404 error in the network

The loaderror callback is never called.

I also tried adding a .catch() function to the Promise, but that was not called back either.

Can someone pls provide some guidance about how to handle errors? Here what I have tried:

documentViewer.addEventListener('loaderror', () => {
          debugger // never get called
        })

And also this

WebViewer({
        path: this.path,
        initialDoc: this.url,
        licenseKey: process.env.VUE_APP_PDFJS_KEY
      }, pdfViewer).then((instance) => {
        ...
        });
      }).catch(() => {
        debugger // never gets called 
      })

Thx

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4

Hey!

You can use this event:

  instance.UI.addEventListener('loaderror', () => {
    console.log('error')
  })

(I realize this is not the best name or location for this event - I’ll talk to the team to get that fixed)

Thanks,
Logan