About Zapier Community
New to our Community? Get to know more about our space and how to make the most of your time here.

Code of Conduct Community FAQ's Zapier Common Questions What to Expect

Get Started With Zapier
New to Zapier? We have got you covered with our Zapier 101 Resources.

Zapier Essentials

Get Support
Have a question? Let's get you an answer!

How Do I...? Troubleshooting Code & Webhooks Developer Zone

Other Help Resources
Wait, there's more! Check out these Community sourced spaces for additional resources.

Zapier Help Center Hire an Expert

Zapier Reading
All of our best learning resources can be found here.

Featured Articles Show & Tell AI Hub Zapier Tools Hub

Learning Groups
Excited to meet other builders? Check out our interest areas full of doers, dreamers, and in-betweeners.

User Groups

Other Learning Resources
Some of our favorite additional ways to upskill your Zapier knowledge.

Zapier Learn Zapier Blog Zapier Webinars

Product Updates
Check out what is new and upcoming with Zapier with our regular product updates.

Product Updates

Early Access Program
Want to join Early Access? Learn more here.

Best answer

Return an empty array if z.response.status is 404

  • 26 April 2023
  • 1 reply
  • 219 views
B
Badge +1

I’m creating an integration that interacts with a REST API.  I’ve built a search action that wraps an API endpoint.  If a resource isn’t found, the API returns a 404.

I’m trying to test for a 404 error then return an empty array.  For some reason, this doesn’t work:

return z.request(options)
  .then((response) => {

    if (response.status === 200) {
      // a search action requires an array to be returned, so wrap with []
      return [ response.json['data'] ];
    }
    else if (response.status === 404) {
      return [];
    }
    else { 
      response.throwForStatus();
    }

  });

What am I missing?

icon

Best answer by benjamink9 26 April 2023, 18:20

View original
This post has been closed for comments. Please create a new post if you need help or have a question about this topic.

1 reply

B
Badge +1

This seems to work:

return z.request(options)
  .then((response) => {

    // a search action requires an array to be returned, so wrap with []
    return [ response.json['data'] ];

  })
  .catch((error) => {
    const message = JSON.parse(error.message)

    if ( message.status === 404 ) { return []; }
    else {throw error;}

  });

 

Terms & Conditions