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throw new error(

throw new Error('Whoops!')

node js throw error

FactoryController.prototype.create = function (callback) {
    //The throw is working, and the exception is returned.
    throw new Error('An error occurred'); //outside callback 
    try {
        this.check(function (check_result) {
            callback(check_result);
        });
    } catch (ex) {
        throw new Error(ex.toString());
    }
}

FactoryController.prototype.create = function (callback) {
    try {
        this.check(function (check_result) {
            //The throw is not working on this case to return the exception to the caller(parent)
            throw new Error('An error occurred'); //inside callback 
        });
    } catch (ex) {
        throw new Error(ex.toString());
    }
}

throw new error(

#Throw new error:

The difference between 'throw new Error' and 'throw someObject' in javascript is that throw new Error wraps the error passed to it in the following format −

{ name: 'Error', message: 'String you pass in the constructor' }

The throw someObject will throw the object as is and will not allow any further code execution from the try block, ie same as throw new Error.

Here is a good explanation about The Error object and throwing your own errors

The Error Object

Just what we can extract from it in an event of an error? The Error object in all browsers support the following two properties:

name: The name of the error, or more specifically, the name of the constructor function the error belongs to.

message: A description of the error, with this description varying depending on the browser.

Six possible values can be returned by the name property, which as mentioned correspond to the names of the error's constructors. They are:

Error Name          Description

EvalError           An error in the eval() function has occurred.

RangeError          Out of range number value has occurred.

ReferenceError      An illegal reference has occurred.

SyntaxError         A syntax error within code inside the eval() function has occurred.
                    All other syntax errors are not caught by try/catch/finally, and will
                    trigger the default browser error message associated with the error. 
                    To catch actual syntax errors, you may use the onerror event.

TypeError           An error in the expected variable type has occurred.

URIError            An error when encoding or decoding the URI has occurred 
                   (ie: when calling encodeURI()).
Throwing your own errors (exceptions)

Instead of waiting for one of the 6 types of errors to occur before control is automatically transferred from the try block to the catch block, you can also explicitly throw your own exceptions to force that to happen on demand. This is great for creating your own definitions of what an error is and when control should be transferred to catch.

js errors

JS Error Name Values:
name
Sets or returns the error name
message
Sets or returns an error message in string from
EvalError
An error has occurred in the eval() function
RangeError
A number is “out of range”
ReferenceError
An illegal reference has occurred
SyntaxError
A syntax error has occurred
TypeError
A type error has occurred
URIError
An encodeURI() error has occurred

throw new error(

throw new Error("Your error message");