Is there an equivalent to Laravel's report helper?

[mathiasHillmann]

https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/errors#the-report-helper

I have created a macro for the usual responses that I want from errors:

Response.macro('defaultResponse', function (this: Response, data: any, message?: string) {
  if (data instanceof Error) {
    switch (data.constructor) {
      case BusinessLogicException:
        this.status(400);
        message = data.message;
        data = null;
        break;

      case validationErrors.E_VALIDATION_ERROR:
        this.status(422);
        message = 'Validation errors occured';
        // @ts-ignore
        data = data.messages;
        break;

      case authErrors.E_INVALID_CREDENTIALS:
        this.status(401);
        message = 'Invalid Email/Password';
        data = null;
        break;

      default:
        this.status(500);
        message = 'An internal error occured';

        if (!app.inProduction) {
          data = {
            name: data.name,
            message: data.message,
            stack: data.stack,
          };
        } else {
          data = null;
        }
        break;
    }
  }

  return {
    message: message != null ? message : null,
    data: data != null ? data : null,
  };
});

However in the default part of the switch I want to pass the error to the HttpExceptionHandler, that way it can both send the error to Sentry and log it into the .log file.

While I could just implement this:

default:
    this.status(500);
    message = 'An internal error occured';
    logger.error(data.message);
    sentry.reportException(data);

    if (!app.inProduction) {
      data = {
        name: data.name,
        message: data.message,
        stack: data.stack,
      };
    } else {
      data = null;
    }
    break;
}

I would prefer to not fragment exception handling between the HttpExceptionHandler and this macro.

Is this possible?

[thetutlage]

I have no idea how the report helper works in Laravel. So, can you please instead share what exactly are you looking for?

[mathiasHillmann]

Essentially its a way to send an error to the HttpExceptionHandler's report function without having the response being handled by the HttpExceptionHandler.

That way you could have the error reported to third party solutions, such as sentry, logged to your usual error loggers, but without interfering with your way of handling errors by the render method.

[thetutlage]

I see. Right now, there is inbuilt no way to do that. However, you can create a custom function that performs the reporting and use it in both the places, i.e standalone and within the Exception handler.

[mathiasHillmann]

That works, thank you!