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Issue Details

When calling functions exposed by contextBridge.exposeInMainWorld, Promises rejected with Error objects or directly thrown Errors (and even caught Errors returned in a wrapper) are not copied as the documentation states – all important information except the message is removed, e.g. Common System Error properties like err.code, err.path etc. are gone. Also, the “Uncaught Error: ” message prefix is not very helpful.

• Electron Version:
  • 10.1.2
• Operating System:
  • Windows 10 (2004)

Expected Behavior

Instances of the Error class (or inherited from it) coming from the context bridge should have all properties preserved (except err.stack, obviously) and message left intact to allow meaningful error handling. Structured Clone Algorithm otherwise serializes Error objects correctly.

Actual Behavior

The Error object is stripped of important additional properties and has a confusing message saying it’s uncaught even when caught on both sides of the bridge.

To Reproduce

preload.js

const { contextBridge } = require('electron');
const fs = require('fs');

contextBridge.exposeInMainWorld('myapi', {
  request: () => fs.lstatSync('foo')
});

renderer

try {
  window.myapi.request();
} catch (e) {
  console.dir(e);
}