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Function: toError()

function toError(entity: unknown): Error;

Defined in: to-error.ts:17

Convert the entity to an Error object.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
entity	unknown	The entity to convert, if it is already an error ir will be returned otherwise a new Error object will be created.

Returns

Error

The entity as an Error object.

Example

toError(new Error('fail')); // returns the same Error object
toError('fail'); // returns Error: fail
toError(404); // returns Error: 404