Make Lambda handler output for failed requests output errorType as the type of an error rather than FunctionError constant #587
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Motivation:
Fix for Issue #580, by making it so that the
errorType
in failed requests will be the type of the error entity, rather than a hardcoded string ofFunctionError
. This allows orchestration within step functions that perform retry/catch logic based on different error output types.Modifications:
At a high level, the issue is that swift-aws-lambda-runtime, when an error is thrown, outputs the errorType as hardcoded to FunctionError. You can see that here:
This PR changes this for all cases to output the type of the error, rather than the hardcoded string:
Now, I will show 2 examples with this solution: