Baseline Widely available
The throw()
method of Generator
instances acts as if a throw
statement is inserted in the generator's body at the current suspended position, which informs the generator of an error condition and allows it to handle the error, or perform cleanup and close itself.
generatorInstance.throw(exception)
Parameters
exception
The exception to throw. For debugging purposes, it is useful to make it an instanceof
Error
.
If the thrown exception is caught by a try...catch
and the generator resumes to yield more values, it will return an Object
with two properties:
done
A boolean value:
true
if the generator function's control flow has reached the end.false
if the generator function is able to produce more values.value
The value yielded from the next yield
expression.
TypeError
Thrown if the generator is already running.
If the exception
is not caught by a try...catch
within the generator function, it is also thrown to the caller of throw()
.
The throw()
method, when called, can be seen as if a throw exception;
statement is inserted in the generator's body at the current suspended position, where exception
is the exception passed to the throw()
method. Therefore, in a typical flow, calling throw(exception)
will cause the generator to throw. However, if the yield
expression is wrapped in a try...catch
block, the error may be caught and control flow can either resume after error handling, or exit gracefully.
The following example shows a generator and an error that is thrown using the throw
method. An error can be caught by a try...catch
block as usual.
function* gen() {
while (true) {
try {
yield 42;
} catch (e) {
console.log("Error caught!");
}
}
}
const g = gen();
g.next();
// { value: 42, done: false }
g.throw(new Error("Something went wrong"));
// "Error caught!"
// { value: 42, done: false }
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