Class: StaleDecisionError

Defined in: src/core/pause.ts:246

The person answered about something the ask was not about.

A typed ask can pin the data the answer is to be chosen FROM — the propsRef on its AskComponent, a 200-row picker's options living in the artifact store rather than in every stored session envelope. A DecisionValue can say which artifact the choice was made AGAINST. When both are present and they disagree, the answer is about different bytes than the question.

That happens for an ordinary reason: time passes between asking and answering. A refresh lands, a filter moves, rows re-sort, the ask is re-raised with new options — and "the third row" now names something else. Accepting it would resume the run with a value the person never chose, and there is no later signal that anything went wrong: the id is well-formed, the type checks, the loop continues.

So it refuses, and the refusal is the feature. A person asked again is mildly annoyed; a person whose gesture was silently reinterpreted has been misrepresented, and in a consent record that is the one failure nothing downstream can recover from.

Only ever raised when the ask pinned a ref AND the answer named one. An approve/decline, a plain askHuman value, or an answer that names no artifact are all byte-identical to every earlier release.

Extends

• Error

Constructors

Constructor

new StaleDecisionError(asked, answered): StaleDecisionError

Defined in: src/core/pause.ts:253

Parameters

asked

string

answered

string

Returns

StaleDecisionError

Overrides

Error.constructor

Properties

answered

readonly answered: string

Defined in: src/core/pause.ts:251

The artifact the ANSWER was chosen against.

asked

readonly asked: string

Defined in: src/core/pause.ts:249

The artifact the QUESTION was asked against.

cause?

optional cause?: unknown

Defined in: node_modules/typescript/lib/lib.es2022.error.d.ts:24

Inherited from

Error.cause

code

readonly code: "ERR_STALE_DECISION"

Defined in: src/core/pause.ts:247

message

message: string

Defined in: node_modules/typescript/lib/lib.es5.d.ts:1077

Inherited from

Error.message

name

name: string

Defined in: node_modules/typescript/lib/lib.es5.d.ts:1076

Inherited from

Error.name

stack?

optional stack?: string

Defined in: node_modules/typescript/lib/lib.es5.d.ts:1078

Inherited from

Error.stack

stackTraceLimit

static stackTraceLimit: number

Defined in: node_modules/@types/node/globals.d.ts:67

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.

Inherited from

Error.stackTraceLimit

Methods

captureStackTrace()

static captureStackTrace(targetObject, constructorOpt?): void

Defined in: node_modules/@types/node/globals.d.ts:51

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

constructorOpt?

Function

Returns

void

Inherited from

Error.captureStackTrace

prepareStackTrace()

static prepareStackTrace(err, stackTraces): any

Defined in: node_modules/@types/node/globals.d.ts:55

Parameters

err

Error

stackTraces

CallSite[]

Returns

any

See

https://v8.dev/docs/stack-trace-api#customizing-stack-traces

Inherited from

Error.prepareStackTrace