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Marcus Schumacher
16,616 PointsCan't get try catch block to work properly
At the end of the video, he gets a nice clean error message from his try catch block. I can not get my try catch block to display the error.message
// require https module
const https = require('https');
function printMessage(username, badgeCount, points) {
const message = `${username} had ${badgeCount} total badge(s) and ${points} points in Javascript`;
console.log(message);
}
function getProfile(username) {
// conect to the API URL (https://teamtreehouse.com/username.json)
try {
const request = https.get(`https://wwwteamtreehouse.com/${username}.json`, response => {
let body = "";
// read the data
response.on('data', data =>{
body += data.toString();
});
response.on('end', ()=>{
// parse the data
const profile = JSON.parse(body);
// print out the information
printMessage(username, profile.badges.length, profile.points.JavaScript);
});
});
request.on('error', error => console.error(`Problem with request: ${error.message}`));
} catch(error) {
console.error(error.message); // Why doesn't this work?
}
}// end getProfile()
const users = process.argv.slice(2);
users.forEach(username => {
getProfile(username);
});
1 Answer

Aakash Srivastava
5,415 PointsHey friend Marcus Schumacher , you have done everything correctly , just a little mistake .
Notice ,in the video , when Chalkers is showing you the example of throwing error , then in first example , he wrote www
but in the second video :
- he has removed the whole
www
- he also removed the whole
https://
so URL is onlyteamtreehouse.com
But what you have done is , you have not removedwww
, it's still there . That's why , it's showing two error .
One for 1 case and another for 2 case.
Hope it will help :)