Errors have undefined body when using streams

[adityapatadia]

Describe the bug

• Node.js version: 12.6.1
• OS & version: Macos 10.14

Actual behavior

When isStream: true is set and request results in HTTPError, the stream emits error event. The emit handler is only called with error argument and body and response arguments are undefined.

...

Expected behavior

As per the docs, the body and response arguments should be set with error event. ...

Code to reproduce

const got = require('got');

let stream = got("https://www.google.com/non-existant-path", {
  isStream: true,
  method: "GET",
  headers: {}
});

stream.on("response", (response) => {
  console.log(response.headers);
  console.log(response.statusCode)
});

stream.on("error", (err, body, response) => {
  // err is set
  console.log(err);

  // body should have been set but it's undefined
  console.log(body);

  // response should have been set but it's undefined.
  console.log(response);
});

Checklist

• [x] I have read the documentation.
• [x] I have tried my code with the latest version of Node.js and Got.

[szmarczak]

This has been also fixed in #1051

[szmarczak]

You need to access the response via error.response, the docs are outdated

[adityapatadia]

Is this going to be consistent in future versions? Or is it going to change in #1051 ?

[szmarczak]

I don't know exactly what do you mean, but this issue is fixed in #1051.

[adityapatadia]

I meant currently err.response works. My question is will the function be .on("error", (err, body, response)= {}) or it will be .on("error", (err)= {}) ? Are you going to update the docs with the existing functionality or you are going to give functionality as per current docs?

I am asking because if it's going to change, we will also need to change code.

[szmarczak]

.on('error', error => { ... })

[adityapatadia]

Cool. I will disregard the docs then. I am doing coding as per err.response now.

[adityapatadia]

Btw, I found another bug. Even if decompress:true is passed, the error.response.body is not decompressed if it's a gzip from the server. Should I report that one?

[szmarczak]

yes, it'd be best to include some reproducible code (but I think I can sketch something on my own so that's not necessary, but it will be welcome)

[adityapatadia]

Opened #1142