Raised when a derived's compute(get) body itself throws a host error during (re)computation — the caller's own error, not an engine verdict.

A derived value is derived(t) = f(b₁(t), …, bₙ(t)); if the user's f throws, the commit that triggered the recompute is aborted. Before this typed wrapper existed the two backends DIVERGED at the FFI seam: the TS floor rethrew the caller's raw error object out of commit, while the wasm engine flattened the throw to Engine(ComputeThrew { reason }) and re-threw an unrelated Error carrying only the stringified message — so catch (e) { if (e instanceof CauslError) } (and any branch on e.cause) silently stopped working once wasm preloaded (causl-client#120).

This error unifies the two: a user compute throw surfaces as the SAME CauslError subclass on both engines, carrying the ORIGINAL thrown value as cause (per Error.cause's ES2022 contract) so adopters can e.cause instanceof MyValidationError to branch on their own error modes. On the wasm engine the derived compute lambda runs in JS behind the __causl_compute FFI crossing, so the real thrown object is captured host-side and preserved as cause without a Rust wire change.

Engine-emitted typed errors raised THROUGH a compute (e.g. an unresolvable dynamic read → UndeclaredDependencyError, or a CycleError) are NOT wrapped by this class — they are already CauslErrors and pass through untouched (see asDerivedComputeError), so their specific identity is retained on both backends.

The derived node whose compute threw.

The original value the compute body threw.

Hierarchy (View Summary)

Constructors

Properties

cause: unknown
derivedId: string
kind: "DerivedCompute" = ...

Discriminated tag for exhaustive matching.

message: string
name: string = 'DerivedComputeError'
stack?: string
stackTraceLimit: number

The Error.stackTraceLimit property specifies the number of stack frames collected by a stack trace (whether generated by new Error().stack or Error.captureStackTrace(obj)).

The default value is 10 but may be set to any valid JavaScript number. Changes will affect any stack trace captured after the value has been changed.

If set to a non-number value, or set to a negative number, stack traces will not capture any frames.

Methods

  • Creates a .stack property on targetObject, which when accessed returns a string representing the location in the code at which Error.captureStackTrace() was called.

    const myObject = {};
    Error.captureStackTrace(myObject);
    myObject.stack; // Similar to `new Error().stack`

    The first line of the trace will be prefixed with ${myObject.name}: ${myObject.message}.

    The optional constructorOpt argument accepts a function. If given, all frames above constructorOpt, including constructorOpt, will be omitted from the generated stack trace.

    The constructorOpt argument is useful for hiding implementation details of error generation from the user. For instance:

    function a() {
    b();
    }

    function b() {
    c();
    }

    function c() {
    // Create an error without stack trace to avoid calculating the stack trace twice.
    const { stackTraceLimit } = Error;
    Error.stackTraceLimit = 0;
    const error = new Error();
    Error.stackTraceLimit = stackTraceLimit;

    // Capture the stack trace above function b
    Error.captureStackTrace(error, b); // Neither function c, nor b is included in the stack trace
    throw error;
    }

    a();

    Parameters

    • targetObject: object
    • OptionalconstructorOpt: Function

    Returns void