Exceptions in event handlers not catched by $exceptionHandler

[blambeau]

See: https://gist.github.com/blambeau/b865bd2fdacb1f821ac5

myApp.directive('bang', function() {
 return {
   link: function(scope, element, attr) {
     element.on('click', function(){
       throw new Error("Bang!");
     });
   }
 };
});

The Bang! exception above won't be catched by the $exceptionHandler. I'm not sure if it's intentional or not (I understand that it might be hard to catch), but it is at least counterintuitive.

[caitp]

how would $exceptionHandler get it? we'd have to make jqLite do it, which is hard since jqLite doesn't know about $exceptionHandler normally --- and then we'd have to monkeypatch jQuery to do that too, really it's not likely to happen, sorry :(

[blambeau]

No problem, I expected such an answer actually.

Maybe adding a comment in $exceptionHandler's documentation would be nice, to warn people that $exceptionHandler is no magic.

[caitp]

Cool, so I think we can close this --- if you want to submit a docs fix to mention that, we can consider it!

[brianmriley]

This really needs to be documented or called out.

[btford]

@brianmriley would you like to submit a PR?

[gkalpak]

@btford: I submitted a PR: #9318
Could you take a look ? I am not a great fan of the wording :)