sinelaw/fresh · error

producerError

Error message

producerError

What it means

During a search-and-replace scan, errors that occur on the producer side (the async search loop) are stored in a producerError string instead of thrown immediately, so the function can finish its bookkeeping. Once the run completes, if producerError was captured, it is rethrown here verbatim. The message is opaque ('producerError' is the template's variable) but the underlying cause is whatever the producer recorded — e.g. a search worker failure or panel/generation inconsistency.

Solutions

1. Look at the full caught error/log output around the search run — this throw rethrows the original producer message, so fix the underlying producer failure.
2. Verify the search pattern (regex validity, encoding) passed to search_replace.
3. Retry the operation; transient producer failures (e.g. during concurrent panel updates) often resolve on a fresh generation.
4. If it persists, check that the search panel is open and the generation state is not being reset concurrently by other plugin calls.

Example fix

// before
await searchReplace({ pattern: userPattern, replace: repl });

// after
try {
  await searchReplace({ pattern: userPattern, replace: repl });
} catch (e) {
  console.error("search failed:", e.message);
  new RegExp(userPattern); // validate regex before retry
}

try {
  const results = await searchReplace(opts);
} catch (e) {
  // producerError is a rethrow of the original producer failure
  log.error("search_replace failed:", e.message);
  // inspect pattern/panel state, then retry once with a fresh call
}

When it happens

Trigger: A search generation's producer loop encounters an error (worker exception, callback failure) and stores it in producerError; when searchReplace finishes and generation still matches currentSearchGeneration with a live panel, line 1533 rethrows it. Also triggered whenever a prior search step set producerError before final state was reached.

Common situations: Regex compilation failures in the search producer, worker/thread crashes during large-corpus scans, plugin API errors surfaced inside the search callback, stale-generation races where an error was recorded mid-scan.

Understand the failure class

Background: "invalid response format", "malformed payload", "missing data field": when an API returns 200 but the response shape is wrong — this error's family across 23 libraries.

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AI-assisted analysis of sinelaw/fresh@67894ca546 (2026-09-13). Data as JSON: /api/errors/6699c379ca7eb613. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at crates/fresh-editor/plugins/search_replace.ts:1533

      // Yield to the JS event loop between chunks. `delay(0)` is
      // enough — it lets queued plugin handlers (Tab, typed input,
      // Esc) run between our streaming work. When there's no
      // carryover, wait the usual pump interval so we don't hot-loop
      // on `handle.take()`.
      const yieldMs = moreInQueue ? 0 : SEARCH_PUMP_INTERVAL_MS;
      await editor.delay(yieldMs);
    }

    if (activeSearchHandle === handle) {
      activeSearchHandle = null;
    }

    // Final state
    if (generation !== currentSearchGeneration || !panel) return allResults;

    if (producerError) {
      throw new Error(producerError);
    }

    panel.truncated = truncated;

    if (!silent) {
      if (allResults.length === 0) {
        editor.setStatus(editor.t("status.no_matches", { pattern }));
      } else if (panel.truncated) {
        editor.setStatus(editor.t("status.found_matches", { count: String(allResults.length) }) + " " + editor.t("panel.limited"));
      } else {
        editor.setStatus(editor.t("status.found_matches", { count: String(allResults.length) }));
      }
    }
    return allResults;
  } catch (e) {
    if (!silent) {
      editor.setStatus(editor.t("status.search_error", { error: String(e) }));
    }

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