---
id: error-handling
title: Error Handling
sidebar_label: Error Handling
hide_title: true
description: 'RTK Query > Usage > Error Handling: dealing with API errors'
---

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# Error Handling

## Overview

If your query or mutation happens to throw an error when using [fetchBaseQuery](../api/fetchBaseQuery), it will be returned in the `error` property of the respective hook. The component will re-render when that occurs, and you can show appropriate UI based on the error data if desired.

### Error Display Examples

```tsx no-transpile title="Query Error"
function PostsList() {
  const { data, error } = useGetPostsQuery()

  return (
    <div>
      {error.status} {JSON.stringify(error.data)}
    </div>
  )
}
```

```tsx no-transpile title="Mutation Error"
function AddPost() {
  const [addPost, { error }] = useAddPostMutation()

  return (
    <div>
      {error.status} {JSON.stringify(error.data)}
    </div>
  )
}
```

:::tip
If you need to access the error or success payload immediately after a mutation, you can chain `.unwrap()`.

```ts title="Using .unwrap" no-transpile
addPost({ id: 1, name: 'Example' })
  .unwrap()
  .then((payload) => console.log('fulfilled', payload))
  .catch((error) => console.error('rejected', error))
```

:::

```tsx no-transpile title="Manually selecting an error"
function PostsList() {
  const { error } = useSelector(api.endpoints.getPosts.select())

  return (
    <div>
      {error.status} {JSON.stringify(error.data)}
    </div>
  )
}
```

## Errors with a custom `baseQuery`

Whether a response is returned as `data` or `error` is dictated by the `baseQuery` provided.

Ultimately, you can choose whatever library you prefer to use with your `baseQuery`, but it's important that you return the correct response format. If you haven't tried [`fetchBaseQuery`](../api/fetchBaseQuery) yet, give it a chance! Otherwise, see [Customizing Queries](./customizing-queries) for information on how to alter the returned errors.

## Handling errors at a macro level

There are quite a few ways that you can manage your errors, and in some cases, you may want to show a generic toast notification for any async error. Being that RTK Query is built on top of Redux and Redux-Toolkit, you can easily add a middleware to your store for this purpose.

:::tip

Redux Toolkit has [action matching utilities](../../api/matching-utilities.mdx) that we can leverage for additional custom behaviors.

:::

```ts no-transpile title="Error catching middleware example"
import { isRejectedWithValue } from '@reduxjs/toolkit'
import type { MiddlewareAPI, Middleware } from '@reduxjs/toolkit'
import { toast } from 'your-cool-library'

/**
 * Log a warning and show a toast!
 */
export const rtkQueryErrorLogger: Middleware =
  (api: MiddlewareAPI) => (next) => (action) => {
    // RTK Query uses `createAsyncThunk` from redux-toolkit under the hood, so we're able to utilize these matchers!
    if (isRejectedWithValue(action)) {
      console.warn('We got a rejected action!')
      toast.warn({
        title: 'Async error!',
        message:
          'data' in action.error
            ? (action.error.data as { message: string }).message
            : action.error.message,
      })
    }

    return next(action)
  }
```