ReadableStreamDefaultController: error() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The error() method of the ReadableStreamDefaultController interface causes any future interactions with the associated stream to error.

Note: The error() method can be called more than once, and can be called when the stream is not readable.

Syntax

js
error(e)

Parameters

e

The error you want future interactions to fail with.

Return value

None (undefined).

Exceptions

TypeError

Thrown if the source object is not a ReadableStreamDefaultController.

Examples

The A readable stream with an underlying push source and backpressure support example in the spec provides a good example of using ReadableStreamDefaultController.desiredSize to manually detect when the stream is full and apply backpressure, and also of using error() to manually trigger a stream error if another part of the system it relies on fails.

Specifications

Specification
Streams
# rs-default-controller-error

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile server
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
Bun
Deno
Node.js
error
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 52 (Release date: 2016-07-20)
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Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 65 (Release date: 2019-01-29)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 39 (Release date: 2016-08-02)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 10 (Release date: 2016-09-20)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 52 (Release date: 2016-07-27)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 65 (Release date: 2019-01-29)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 41 (Release date: 2016-10-25)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 10 (Release date: 2016-09-13)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 6 (Release date: 2017-08-23)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 52 (Release date: 2016-07-27)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 10 (Release date: 2016-09-13)
footnote Full support
Bun – Full support
Bun 1 (Release date: 2023-09-08)
footnote Full support
Deno – Full support
Deno 1 (Release date: 2020-05-13)
footnote Full support
Node.js – Full support
Node.js 16.5 (Release date: 2021-07-14)
footnote Full support

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See also