From b734edba14c85eb8e41d9a375d2fed668e510f55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel James Smith <djsmith85@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 01:07:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Display importFormatError on failed to parse input (#5809)

---
 libs/importer/src/services/import.service.ts | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libs/importer/src/services/import.service.ts b/libs/importer/src/services/import.service.ts
index 8cfe40248c..07e9b998a4 100644
--- a/libs/importer/src/services/import.service.ts
+++ b/libs/importer/src/services/import.service.ts
@@ -108,7 +108,16 @@ export class ImportService implements ImportServiceAbstraction {
     fileContents: string,
     organizationId: string = null
   ): Promise<ImportResult> {
-    const importResult = await importer.parse(fileContents);
+    let importResult: ImportResult;
+    try {
+      importResult = await importer.parse(fileContents);
+    } catch (error) {
+      if (error instanceof SyntaxError) {
+        throw new Error(this.i18nService.t("importFormatError"));
+      }
+      throw error;
+    }
+
     if (!importResult.success) {
       if (!Utils.isNullOrWhitespace(importResult.errorMessage)) {
         throw new Error(importResult.errorMessage);