JavaScript global event mechanism

Question

I would like to catch every undefined function error thrown. Is there a global error handling facility in JavaScript? The use case is catching function calls from flash that

Answer 1

You listen to the onerror event by assigning a function to window.onerror:

 window.onerror = function (msg, url, lineNo, columnNo, error) {
        var string = msg.toLowerCase();
        var substring = "script error";
        if (string.indexOf(substring) > -1){
            alert('Script Error: See Browser Console for Detail');
        } else {
            alert(msg, url, lineNo, columnNo, error);
        }   
      return false; 
  };

Answer 2

// display error messages for a page, but never more than 3 errors
window.onerror = function(msg, url, line) {
if (onerror.num++ < onerror.max) {
alert("ERROR: " + msg + "\n" + url + ":" + line);
return true;
}
}
onerror.max = 3;
onerror.num = 0;

Answer 3

Does this help you:

<script type="text/javascript">
window.onerror = function() {
    alert("Error caught");
};

xxx();
</script>

I'm not sure how it handles Flash errors though...

Update: it doesn't work in Opera, but I'm hacking Dragonfly right now to see what it gets. Suggestion about hacking Dragonfly came from this question:

Mimic Window. onerror in Opera using javascript

Answer 4

One should preserve the previously associated onerror callback as well

<script type="text/javascript">

(function() {
    var errorCallback = window.onerror;
    window.onerror = function () {
        // handle error condition
        errorCallback && errorCallback.apply(this, arguments);
    };
})();

</script>