Dexie.SubTransactionError

Inheritance Hierarchy

Error
- Dexie.DexieError
  - Dexie.SubTransactionError

Description

A call to db.transaction() with a mode or set of tables that was not compatible with the currently ongoing transaction. For example:

db.transaction('r', db.friends, ()=> {
    return db.transaction('rw', db.friends, db.pets, ()=> {

    }).catch(e => {
        // e will be SubTransactionError for two reasons:
        // 1. Parent transaction is readonly.
        // 2. Parent transaction does not include db.pets.
    })
});

To work around this error, make sure that the parent transaction includes all tables that subtransactions may include and that if subtransactions require ‘rw’ mode, use ‘rw’ mode also in parent transactions.

If you didn’t have a parent transaction, but your transaction was initiated in your Collection.each() or Collection.modify() callback, you should surround the call to Collection.each() / Collection.modify() with a transaction block, including the correct mode and tables to include.

Sample using Promise.catch()

doSomeDatabaseWork().then(result => {
    // Success
}).catch('SubTransactionError', e => {
    // Failed with SubTransactionError
    console.error ("SubTransaction error: " + e.message);
}).catch(Error, e => {
    // Any other error derived from standard Error
    console.error ("Error: " + e.message);
}).catch(e => {
    // Other error such as a string was thrown
    console.error (e);
});

Sample: switch(error.name)

db.on('error', function (error) {
    switch (error.name) {
        // errnames.SubTransaction ==="SubTransactionError"
        case Dexie.errnames.SubTransaction:
            console.error ("SubTransaction error");
            break;
        default:
            console.error ("error: " + e);
    }
});

Properties

name	Will always be Dexie.errnames.SubTransaction === "SubTransactionError"
message	Detailed message
inner?	Inner exception instance (if any)
stack	Can be present if the error was thrown. If signaled, there wont be any call stack.

Dexie.js Docs