initial commit

frontend/src/app/api/BaseApi.ts

@@ -222,6 +222,8 @@ const throwError = (
   searchInputs: SearchFetcherProps,
   firstError?: APIResponseError,
 ) => {
+  console.log("Throwing error: ", message, status_code, searchInputs);
+
   // Include just firstError for now, we can expand this
   // If we need ValidationErrors to be more expanded
   const error = firstError ? { message, firstError } : { message };

frontend/src/app/search/error.tsx

@@ -27,7 +27,30 @@ export interface ParsedError {
 export default function Error({ error }: ErrorProps) {
   // The error message is passed as an object that's been stringified.
   // Parse it here.
-  const parsedErrorData = JSON.parse(error.message) as ParsedError;
+
+  let parsedErrorData;
+  if (!isValidJSON(error.message)) {
+    // if we have no endpoints enabled,
+    // the API may return invalid JSON
+    parsedErrorData = {
+      type: "NetworkError",
+      searchInputs: {
+        status: [],
+        query: "",
+        fundingInstrument: [],
+        eligibility: [],
+        agency: [],
+        category: [],
+        sortby: null,
+        page: 1,
+        actionType: "initialLoad",
+      },
+      message: "Invalid JSON returned",
+      status: -1,
+    };
+  }
+
+  parsedErrorData = JSON.parse(error.message) as ParsedError;
 
   const pagination_info = getErrorPaginationInfo();
   const initialSearchResults: SearchAPIResponse = getErrorInitialSearchResults(
@@ -103,3 +126,12 @@ function convertSearchInputArraysToSets(
     category: new Set(searchInputs.category || []),
   };
 }
+
+function isValidJSON(str: string) {
+  try {
+    JSON.parse(str);
+    return true; // String is valid JSON
+  } catch (e) {
+    return false; // String is not valid JSON
+  }
+}

frontend/src/errors.ts

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ export class BaseFrontendError extends Error {
     type: string,
     status?: number,
   ) {
+    // Sets cannot be properly serialized so convert to arrays first
     const serializedSearchInputs = convertSearchInputSetsToArrays(searchInputs);
 
     const serializedData = JSON.stringify({