Error Handling - No response / WF Action failed in API endpoint

[sudsy]

Unfortunately, I don’t think there’s an official Bubble solution to this problem as yet…

Error Handling in API Workflows

Hello Bubblers, Is there an option to catch and handle errors in an API Workflow? I am using error handling for elements and page-wide error handling, but I don’t see any option to handle errors in an API Workflow. If an error occurs right now, it seems there’s a very generic response delivered to the user. Worse yet, some of my API Workflows are actually calling OTHER APIs (through API Connector), and if those APIs die, some very ugly error messages are passing through to the user - all ver…

How to catch errors within API Workflows?

Ok, I think I understand the issue now. This thread from 2.5 years ago seems to be about the same thing. While far from ideal, until the issue is officially addressed by Bubble, another approach might be to implement a “proxy relay” endpoint - i.e. a “middleman” endpoint which sits between Bubble and the “true” endpoint (Stripe in this case). For certain “critical” API workflows, it might be worth the effort. I fiddled around and was able to implement a no-code solution to fetch a customer fro…