I have a kotlinjs app. I handle a particular event (dropping of data onto a component) like this:
onEvent {
drop = { event ->
GlobalScope.async {
//...
dropTask(y, data)
}
}
}
// ...
// this function has to be a suspend function because model's is
private suspend fun dropTask(y: Int, taskId: TaskId) {
// ... prepare data
model.insertBefore(taskId!!, insertBefore?.id)
}
// ... Model's function is defined like this:
suspend fun insertBefore(taskToInsert: TaskId, taskBefore: TaskId?) {
val (src, _) = memory.find(taskToInsert)
// ... and finally, the find function is:
fun find(taskId: TaskId): Pair<Task?, Int> {
// ...
return if (task != null) {
// ...
} else {
throw Exception("Couldn't find task with id $taskId!!")
}
}
The issue is that the Exception gets thrown, but isn't reported anywhere.
I have tried:
a) Installing a CoroutineExceptionHandler into the GlobalScope.async (i.e.:
val handler = CoroutineExceptionHandler { _, e ->
console.log("Caught exception: $e")
}
GlobalScope.async(handler) {
...but this never gets called. This would be relatively clean if I could make it work. It would be even nicer if this was default behavior for kotlinjs, so that exceptions weren't accidentally unreported.
b) Calling await:
drop = { event ->
GlobalScope.launch {
GlobalScope.async() {
// ...
dropTask(y, data)
}.await()
}
}
This does result in the exception being logged to the console, but it's so ugly. It's not possible to call .await() outside of a suspend function or coroutine, so for this particular event handler I have to wrap the async call in a launch. I must be doing something wrong. Anybody have a better pattern that I should be using?
