Fetch previous term execs on error

lib/team.ts

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ async function getExecNamePosPairs({
     return [["codey", "mascot"]];
   }
 
-  console.log(`Fetching Exec Name-Position pairs for ${term} ${year}`);
+  console.log(`Fetching exec name-position pairs for ${term} ${year}`);
 
   const url = "ldap://ldap1.csclub.uwaterloo.ca";
   const searchDN = "ou=People,dc=csclub,dc=uwaterloo,dc=ca";
@@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ async function getExecNamePosPairs({
       )}${year}))`,
     });
 
+    if (searchEntries.length === 0) {
+      throw new Error(`No execs found for ${term} ${year}`);
+    }
+
     // item.position might be an array if the member has more than one position
     searchEntries.forEach((item) => {
       if (typeof item.position === "string" && item.position in execPositions) {
@@ -118,14 +122,10 @@ async function getExecNamePosPairs({
     });
 
     formattedExec = orderedExecPositions.map((position) => {
-      return [
-        `${execMembers[position].split(" ")[0].toLowerCase()}-${execMembers[
-          position
-        ]
-          .split(" ")[1]
-          .toLowerCase()}`,
-        position,
-      ];
+      const fullName = execMembers[position];
+      const firstName = fullName.split(" ")[0].toLowerCase();
+      const lastName = fullName.split(" ")[1].toLowerCase();
+      return [`${firstName}-${lastName}`, position];
     });
 
     formattedExec = [...formattedExec, ["codey", "mascot"]];

pages/about/team.tsx

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import {
   Metadata as TeamMemberData,
   getMemberImagePath,
 } from "@/lib/team";
-import { getCurrentTermYear } from "@/utils";
+import { getCurrentTermYear, getPreviousTermYear } from "@/utils";
 
 import designData from "../../content/team/design-team.json";
 import discordData from "../../content/team/discord-team.json";
@@ -155,7 +155,14 @@ function sortTeamMembers(team: Team): Team {
 }
 
 export const getStaticProps: GetStaticProps<Props> = async () => {
-  const execs = await getExecs(getCurrentTermYear());
+  let execs: SerializedExec[] = [];
+
+  try {
+    execs = await getExecs(getCurrentTermYear());
+  } catch (e: unknown) {
+    console.error(e instanceof Error ? e.message : e);
+    execs = await getExecs(getPreviousTermYear());
+  }
 
   // Note that rawTeams do not contain image paths of members, even though
   // TypeScript thinks that it does. It's just to simplify some code.

utils.ts

@@ -86,3 +86,13 @@ export function getCurrentTermYear() {
 
   return result.value;
 }
+
+export function getPreviousTermYear() {
+  const result = getTermYear({ goBackwards: true, skipCurrent: true }).next();
+
+  if (result.done === true) {
+    throw new Error("Cannot get previous term. Iterator is done.");
+  }
+
+  return result.value;
+}