Dexie.ConstraintError

Inheritance Hierarchy

• Error

  • Dexie.DexieError

    • Dexie.ConstraintError

Description

A database operation was attempted that violates a constraint. For example, if you've defined a unique index "name" and put two objects in that table with the same name, the second put() will result in a constraint error

const db = new Dexie('mydb');
db.version(1).stores({
    foo: "id, &name"
});

async function main () {
    try {
        await db.foo.put({id: 1, name: "foo"}); // ok
        await db.foo.put({id: 2, name: "bar"}); // ok
        await db.foo.put({id: 3, name: "bar"}); // will fail with ConstraintError
    } catch (e) {
        assert (e.name === "ConstraintError");
    }
}

main();

Sample using Promise.catch()

doSomeDatabaseWork().then(result => {
    // Success
}).catch('ConstraintError', e => {
    // Failed with ConstraintError
    console.error ("Constraint error: " + e.message);
}).catch(Error, e => {
    // Any other error derived from standard Error
    console.error ("Error: " + e.message);
}).catch(e => {
    // Other error such as a string was thrown
    console.error (e);
});

Sample: switch(error.name)

db.on('error', function (error) {
    switch (error.name) {
        // errnames.Constraint ==="ConstraintError"
        case Dexie.errnames.Constraint:
            console.error ("Constraint error");
            break;
        default:
            console.error ("error: " + e);
    }
});

Properties

name	Will always be Dexie.errnames.Constraint === "ConstraintError"
message	Detailed message
inner?	Inner exception instance (if any)
stack	Can be present if the error was thrown. If signaled, there wont be any call stack.