From 8c497f89691b5b0b4224e8c6b3d2e7c6e3b2d405 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerhard Stoebich <18708370+Flarna@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 21:08:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] events: allow monitoring error events

Installing an error listener has a side effect that emitted errors are
considered as handled. This is quite bad for monitoring/logging tools
which tend to be interested in errors but don't want to cause side
effects like swallow an exception.

There are some workarounds in the wild like monkey patching emit or
remit the error if monitoring tool detects that it is the only listener
but this is error prone and risky.

This PR allows to install a listener to monitor errors with the side
effect to consume the error. To avoid conflicts with other events it
exports a symbol on EventEmitter which owns this special meaning.

Refs: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/issues/225

Backport-PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/32004
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/30932
Refs: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/issues/225
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
---
 doc/api/events.md                             | 25 +++++++++++++++
 lib/events.js                                 | 14 ++++++--
 .../test-event-emitter-error-monitor.js       | 32 +++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 test/parallel/test-event-emitter-error-monitor.js

diff --git a/doc/api/events.md b/doc/api/events.md
index 854150de3a4982..29a686d52631ab 100644
--- a/doc/api/events.md
+++ b/doc/api/events.md
@@ -155,6 +155,18 @@ myEmitter.emit('error', new Error('whoops!'));
 // Prints: whoops! there was an error
 ```
 
+It is possible to monitor `'error'` events without consuming the emitted error
+by installing a listener using the symbol `errorMonitor`.
+
+```js
+const myEmitter = new MyEmitter();
+myEmitter.on(EventEmitter.errorMonitor, (err) => {
+  MyMonitoringTool.log(err);
+});
+myEmitter.emit('error', new Error('whoops!'));
+// Still throws and crashes Node.js
+```
+
 ## Capture Rejections of Promises
 
 > Stability: 1 - captureRejections is experimental.
@@ -348,6 +360,19 @@ the event emitter instance, the event’s name and the number of attached
 listeners, respectively.
 Its `name` property is set to `'MaxListenersExceededWarning'`.
 
+### `EventEmitter.errorMonitor`
+<!-- YAML
+added: REPLACEME
+-->
+
+This symbol shall be used to install a listener for only monitoring `'error'`
+events. Listeners installed using this symbol are called before the regular
+`'error'` listeners are called.
+
+Installing a listener using this symbol does not change the behavior once an
+`'error'` event is emitted, therefore the process will still crash if no
+regular `'error'` listener is installed.
+
 ### `emitter.addListener(eventName, listener)`
 <!-- YAML
 added: v0.1.26
diff --git a/lib/events.js b/lib/events.js
index 4b16f9fa3c52a5..c3ac526a5c2d45 100644
--- a/lib/events.js
+++ b/lib/events.js
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ const {
 } = require('internal/util/inspect');
 
 const kCapture = Symbol('kCapture');
+const kErrorMonitor = Symbol('events.errorMonitor');
 
 function EventEmitter(opts) {
   EventEmitter.init.call(this, opts);
@@ -88,6 +89,13 @@ ObjectDefineProperty(EventEmitter, 'captureRejections', {
   enumerable: true
 });
 
+ObjectDefineProperty(EventEmitter, 'errorMonitor', {
+  value: kErrorMonitor,
+  writable: false,
+  configurable: true,
+  enumerable: true
+});
+
 // The default for captureRejections is false
 ObjectDefineProperty(EventEmitter.prototype, kCapture, {
   value: false,
@@ -261,9 +269,11 @@ EventEmitter.prototype.emit = function emit(type, ...args) {
   let doError = (type === 'error');
 
   const events = this._events;
-  if (events !== undefined)
+  if (events !== undefined) {
+    if (doError && events[kErrorMonitor] !== undefined)
+      this.emit(kErrorMonitor, ...args);
     doError = (doError && events.error === undefined);
-  else if (!doError)
+  } else if (!doError)
     return false;
 
   // If there is no 'error' event listener then throw.
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-event-emitter-error-monitor.js b/test/parallel/test-event-emitter-error-monitor.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..2b22b425b29194
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-event-emitter-error-monitor.js
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+'use strict';
+const common = require('../common');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const EventEmitter = require('events');
+
+const EE = new EventEmitter();
+const theErr = new Error('MyError');
+
+EE.on(
+  EventEmitter.errorMonitor,
+  common.mustCall(function onErrorMonitor(e) {
+    assert.strictEqual(e, theErr);
+  }, 3)
+);
+
+// Verify with no error listener
+assert.throws(
+  () => EE.emit('error', theErr), theErr
+);
+
+// Verify with error listener
+EE.once('error', common.mustCall((e) => assert.strictEqual(e, theErr)));
+EE.emit('error', theErr);
+
+
+// Verify it works with once
+process.nextTick(() => EE.emit('error', theErr));
+assert.rejects(EventEmitter.once(EE, 'notTriggered'), theErr);
+
+// Only error events trigger error monitor
+EE.on('aEvent', common.mustCall());
+EE.emit('aEvent');