IDBRequest: error event

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since September 2021.

The error handler is executed when an error caused a request to fail. In the error event handler, you can access the error of the request, as well as place more requests to the same transaction.

This event is not cancelable and does not bubble.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

js
addEventListener("error", (event) => {});

onerror = (event) => {};

Event type

A generic Event.

Examples

This example opens a database and tries to add a record, listening for the error event for the add() operation (this will occur if, for example, a record with the given taskTitle already exists):

js
// Open the database
const DBOpenRequest = window.indexedDB.open("toDoList", 4);

DBOpenRequest.addEventListener("upgradeneeded", (event) => {
  const db = event.target.result;

  db.onerror = () => {
    console.log("Error creating database");
  };

  // Create an objectStore for this database
  const objectStore = db.createObjectStore("toDoList", {
    keyPath: "taskTitle",
  });

  // define what data items the objectStore will contain
  objectStore.createIndex("hours", "hours", { unique: false });
  objectStore.createIndex("minutes", "minutes", { unique: false });
  objectStore.createIndex("day", "day", { unique: false });
  objectStore.createIndex("month", "month", { unique: false });
  objectStore.createIndex("year", "year", { unique: false });
});

DBOpenRequest.addEventListener("success", (event) => {
  const db = DBOpenRequest.result;

  // open a read/write db transaction, ready for adding the data
  const transaction = db.transaction(["toDoList"], "readwrite");
  const objectStore = transaction.objectStore("toDoList");
  const newItem = {
    taskTitle: "my task",
    hours: 10,
    minutes: 10,
    day: 10,
    month: "January",
    year: 2020,
  };

  const objectStoreRequest = objectStore.add(newItem);
  objectStoreRequest.addEventListener("error", () => {
    console.log(`Error adding new item: ${newItem.taskTitle}`);
  });
});

The same example, using the onerror property instead of addEventListener():

js
// Open the database
const DBOpenRequest = window.indexedDB.open("toDoList", 4);

DBOpenRequest.onupgradeneeded = (event) => {
  const db = event.target.result;

  db.onerror = () => {
    console.log("Error creating database");
  };

  // Create an objectStore for this database
  const objectStore = db.createObjectStore("toDoList", {
    keyPath: "taskTitle",
  });

  // define what data items the objectStore will contain
  objectStore.createIndex("hours", "hours", { unique: false });
  objectStore.createIndex("minutes", "minutes", { unique: false });
  objectStore.createIndex("day", "day", { unique: false });
  objectStore.createIndex("month", "month", { unique: false });
  objectStore.createIndex("year", "year", { unique: false });
};

DBOpenRequest.onsuccess = (event) => {
  const db = DBOpenRequest.result;

  // open a read/write db transaction, ready for adding the data
  const transaction = db.transaction(["toDoList"], "readwrite");
  const objectStore = transaction.objectStore("toDoList");
  const newItem = {
    taskTitle: "my task",
    hours: 10,
    minutes: 10,
    day: 10,
    month: "January",
    year: 2020,
  };

  const objectStoreRequest = objectStore.add(newItem);
  objectStoreRequest.onerror = () => {
    console.log(`Error adding new item: ${newItem.taskTitle}`);
  };
};

Specifications

Specification
Indexed Database API 3.0
# eventdef-idbrequest-error

Browser compatibility

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Chrome
Edge
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Opera
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Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
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