Plyr: Get error details on error event

[vbourgeois]

• [x] Issue does not already exist
• [ ] Issue observed on https://plyr.io

Expected behaviour

Get the error details on the error event (for instance a HTTP error 401), by doing :

instance.on("error", function (event) {
    var error = event.detail.plyr.getContainer().error;
    console.error("plyr error", error);
});

Actual behaviour

Got undefined

Environment

• Browser: Chromium
• Version: 57
• Operating System: Ubuntu
• Version: 16.04

Players affected:

• [ ] HTML5 Video
• [x] HTML5 Audio
• [ ] YouTube
• [ ] Vimeo

Steps to reproduce

• go to the page containing the audio player
• remove website token from browser
• try to play sound
• 401 in the console

Hello,

I'm looking for a way to get the details of an error using the error event. I tried to look for an error object in the container but didn't find anything...
Thank you for your work and for your help!

[ajw725]

i can't figure this out either. the readme says "The element's error attribute contains more information," but 1) it's not very clear what "the element" is, and 2) i can't find an error attribute on anything that might be "the element" (the error object, the player, etc.).

[sampotts]

Sorry, I'll work on improving this.

[Lesik]

Any progress on this? I'm not sure if I'm having the exact same issue as @vbourgeois, for me the event.detail is always undefined for any event I'm attaching to.

this.$video.on('play', (event) => {
    console.debug(event);       // event object has detail attribute object but it is undefined
});

[sampotts]

See the other issue related to error handling for a more updated response. Sorry I’m on my phone so it’s hard to search.

[Latentimagedesign]

Is it possible to link to the fix - i'm having a hell of time searching for the correct ticket. Sorry for being a bother.

[mnlmaier]

any update on this? :D i would love to be able to check out the error event for debugging.