Error handling during intialisation
There may be a failure during player initialization which results in the player object not being returned. Since there is no object instance to attach listeners onto, no errors can be caught.
To deal with this the otvtoolkit
allows for a creationFailureCallback
property on its plugin options. In the event of an error during initialisation, this will be called with an error object passed in as the only parameter.
The error object will have a name
and a message
property that can be used to determine the nature of the error.
let playerInstance = otvplayer(
"videoPlayer",
// options
{
plugins: {
otvtoolkit: {
creationFailureCallback: onCreationFailureCallback
}
}
},
// loaded callback
function loadedCallback() {
...
}
);
function onCreationFailureCallback(creationError) {
console.error(creationError.name + ": " + creationError.message);
}
An invalid video ID being passed to the player, otvplayer
will generate a TypeException
, for an invalid plugin or plugin component, otvplayer
will generate a ReferenceException
.