Better OOTB error handling #4535

Runtime

NodeJS

Runtime version

any

Module version

21

What problem are you trying to solve?

Whenever I make a new server and it throws, the error is caught and wrapped into a generic Boom.internal(), with no feedback on the original error or the stack trace. The only way to introspect is to pass routes.ext.onPreResponse.method() to server options.

This is a bit awkward, especially if I'm using the server for non-production cases, tests, or non-critical apps. It would be nice if the option to obfuscate errors was an opt-in / out configuration. I do understand that Hapi is this way in order to be secure by default, I just think it would be helpful

Do you have a new or modified API suggestion to solve the problem?

Perhaps a Hapi.server({ production: true | false }) would suffice? I am currently using NODE_ENV to set the onPreResponse options so I have good feedback at dev time.