better protect transaction history polling from errors

Go blocks parse try catch blocks and turn them into event
dispatches. This captures the original intent of the code to catch
errors and terminate the current async worker execution.

Signed-off-by: yenda <eric@status.im>

src/status_im/models/transactions.cljs

@@ -254,14 +254,23 @@
 
 (defn- async-periodic-exec
   "Periodically execute an function.
+
   Takes a work-fn of one argument `finished-fn -> any` this function
   is passed a finished-fn that must be called to signal that the work
   being performed in the work-fn is finished.
 
-  The work-fn can be forced to run immediately "
+  Returns a go channel that represents a way to control the looping process.
+
+  Stop the polling loop with `async-periodic-stop!`
+
+  The work-fn can be forced to run immediately with `async-periodic-run!`
+
+  Or you can queue up another fn `finished-fn -> any` to execute on
+  the queue with `async-periodic-run!`."
   [work-fn interval-ms timeout-ms]
   {:pre [(fn? work-fn) (integer? interval-ms) (integer? timeout-ms)]}
-  (let [do-now-chan (async/chan (async/sliding-buffer 1))]
+  (let [do-now-chan (async/chan (async/sliding-buffer 1))
+        try-it (fn [exec-fn catch-fn] (try (exec-fn) (catch :default e (catch-fn e))))]
     (go-loop []
       (let [timeout (async-util/timeout interval-ms)
             finished-chan (async/promise-chan)
@@ -269,11 +278,11 @@
             worker (if (and (= ch do-now-chan) (fn? v))
                      v work-fn)]
         (when-not (and (= ch do-now-chan) (nil? v))
-          (try
-            (worker #(async/put! finished-chan true))
-            ;; if an error occurs in work-fn log it and consider it done
-            (catch :default e
+          ;; don't let try catch be parsed by go-block
+          (try-it #(worker (fn [] (async/put! finished-chan true)))
+                  (fn [e]
                     (log/error "failed to run transaction sync" e)
+                    ;; if an error occurs in work-fn log it and consider it done
                     (async/put! finished-chan true)))
           ;; sanity timeout for work-fn
           (async/alts! [finished-chan (async-util/timeout timeout-ms)])

test/cljs/status_im/test/wallet/transactions.cljs

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
                    (swap! state inc)
                    (throw (ex-info "Throwing this on purpose in error-in-job test" {})))
                  10
-                 10))
+                 100))
         (async test-done
                (js/setTimeout
                 (fn []