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Returning responses

In SolidStart, it is possible to return a Response object from a server function. solid-router knows how to handle certain responses with its cache and action APIs. For Typescript, when returning a response using solid-routers's redirect, reload, or json helpers, they will not impact the return value of the server function.

While we suggest depending on the type of the function to handle errors differently, you can always return or throw a response.

Examples

In the following example, the hello function will return a value of type Promise<{ hello: string }>:

import { json } from "@solidjs/router";
import { GET } from "@solidjs/start";

const hello = GET(async (name: string) => {
  "use server";
  return json(
    { hello: new Promise<string>((r) => setTimeout(() => r(name), 1000)) },
    { headers: { "cache-control": "max-age=60" } }
  );
});

However, in this example, since redirect and reload return never as their type, getUser can only return a value of type Promise<User>:

export async function getUser() {
  "use server";

  const session = await getSession();
  const userId = session.data.userId;
  if (userId === undefined) return redirect("/login");

  try {
    const user: User = await db.user.findUnique({ where: { id: userId } });
    // throwing can awkward.
    if (!user) return redirect("/login");
    return user;
  } catch {
    // do stuff
    throw redirect("/login");
  }
}

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