From a6b8bc2052355a6ab671f12d6729ef50a44cdf4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexandr Garbuzov <186095128+alexandr-garbuzov@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:53:48 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix: resolve vscode type errors inside retryer module (#4614)

Co-authored-by: Alexandr <qwerty541zxc@gmail.com>
---
 backend/src/common/retryer.js | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/backend/src/common/retryer.js b/backend/src/common/retryer.js
index 9327fe00..feecb4bf 100644
--- a/backend/src/common/retryer.js
+++ b/backend/src/common/retryer.js
@@ -66,21 +66,30 @@ const retryer = async (fetcher, variables, retries = 0) => {
     // finally return the response
     return response;
   } catch (err) {
+    /** @type {any} */
+    const e = err;
+
+    // network/unexpected error → let caller treat as failure
+    if (!e?.response) {
+      throw e;
+    }
+
     // prettier-ignore
     // also checking for bad credentials if any tokens gets invalidated
-    const isBadCredential = err.response.data && err.response.data.message === "Bad credentials";
+    const isBadCredential =
+      e?.response?.data?.message === "Bad credentials";
     const isAccountSuspended =
-      err.response.data &&
-      err.response.data.message === "Sorry. Your account was suspended.";
+      e?.response?.data?.message === "Sorry. Your account was suspended.";
 
     if (isBadCredential || isAccountSuspended) {
       logger.log(`PAT_${retries + 1} Failed due to bad credentials`);
       retries++;
       // directly return from the function
       return retryer(fetcher, variables, retries);
-    } else {
-      return err.response;
     }
+
+    // HTTP error with a response → return it for caller-side handling
+    return e.response;
   }
 };