chore: move error throwing within `selectPeerForProtocol`

As all callers throw upon undefined result.

packages/core/src/lib/filter/index.ts

@@ -268,15 +268,12 @@ class Filter implements IFilter {
   }
 
   private async getPeer(peerId?: PeerId): Promise<Peer> {
-    const res = await selectPeerForProtocol(
+    const { peer } = await selectPeerForProtocol(
       this.peerStore,
       [this.multicodec],
       peerId
     );
-    if (!res) {
+    return peer;
-      throw new Error(`Failed to select peer for ${this.multicodec}`);
-    }
-    return res.peer;
   }
 
   async peers(): Promise<Peer[]> {

packages/peer-exchange/src/waku_peer_exchange.ts

@@ -119,15 +119,12 @@ export class WakuPeerExchange implements IPeerExchange {
    * @returns A peer to query
    */
   private async getPeer(peerId?: PeerId): Promise<Peer> {
-    const res = await selectPeerForProtocol(
+    const { peer } = await selectPeerForProtocol(
       this.peerStore,
       [PeerExchangeCodec],
       peerId
     );
-    if (!res) {
+    return peer;
-      throw new Error(`Failed to select peer for ${PeerExchangeCodec}`);
-    }
-    return res.peer;
   }
 
   /**

packages/utils/src/libp2p/index.ts

@@ -42,22 +42,22 @@ export async function selectPeerForProtocol(
   peerStore: PeerStore,
   protocols: string[],
   peerId?: PeerId
-): Promise<{ peer: Peer; protocol: string } | undefined> {
+): Promise<{ peer: Peer; protocol: string }> {
   let peer;
   if (peerId) {
     peer = await peerStore.get(peerId);
     if (!peer) {
-      log(
+      throw new Error(
         `Failed to retrieve connection details for provided peer in peer store: ${peerId.toString()}`
       );
-      return;
     }
   } else {
     const peers = await getPeersForProtocol(peerStore, protocols);
     peer = selectRandomPeer(peers);
     if (!peer) {
-      log("Failed to find known peer that registers protocols", protocols);
+      throw new Error(
-      return;
+        `Failed to find known peer that registers protocols: ${protocols}`
+      );
     }
   }
 
@@ -70,11 +70,9 @@ export async function selectPeerForProtocol(
   }
   log(`Using codec ${protocol}`);
   if (!protocol) {
-    log(
+    throw new Error(
-      `Peer does not register required protocols: ${peer.id.toString()}`,
+      `Peer does not register required protocols (${peer.id.toString()}): ${protocols}`
-      protocols
     );
-    return;
   }
 
   return { peer, protocol };