fetch: Reject promise with JSON error object

Question

I have an HTTP API that returns JSON data both on success and on failure.

An example failure would look like this:

~ ◆ http get http://localhost:5000/api/isbn/2266202022 
HTTP/1.1 400 BAD REQUEST
Content-Length: 171
Content-Type: application/json
Server: TornadoServer/4.0

{
    "message": "There was an issue with at least some of the supplied values.", 
    "payload": {
        "isbn": "Could not find match for ISBN."
    }, 
    "type": "validation"
}

What I want to achieve in my JavaScript code is something like this:

fetch(url)
  .then((resp) => {
     if (resp.status >= 200 && resp.status < 300) {
       return resp.json();
     } else {
       // This does not work, since the Promise returned by `json()` is never fulfilled
       return Promise.reject(resp.json());
     }
   })
   .catch((error) => {
     // Do something with the error object
   }

Answer 1

 // This does not work, since the Promise returned by `json()` is never fulfilled
return Promise.reject(resp.json());

Well, the resp.json promise will be fulfilled, only Promise.reject doesn't wait for it and immediately rejects with a promise.

I'll assume that you rather want to do the following:

fetch(url).then((resp) => {
  let json = resp.json(); // there's always a body
  if (resp.status >= 200 && resp.status < 300) {
    return json;
  } else {
    return json.then(Promise.reject.bind(Promise));
  }
})

(or, written explicitly)

    return json.then(err => {throw err;});