wiki/examples/js/create-order-handle-errors.md
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
import ccxt from '../../js/ccxt.js';
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
(async () => {
const exchange = new ccxt.bittrex ({
'apiKey': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
'secret': 'YOUR_SECRET_KEY',
'verbose': false, // set to true to see more debugging output
'timeout': 60000,
})
// try to load markets first, retry on request timeouts until it succeeds:
while (true) {
try {
await exchange.loadMarkets ();
break;
} catch (e) {
if (e instanceof ccxt.RequestTimeout)
console.log (exchange.iso8601 (Date.now ()), e.constructor.name, e.message)
}
}
const symbol = 'ETH/BTC'
const orderType = 'limit'
const side = 'sell'
const amount = 0.321;
const price = 0.123;
// try just one attempt to create an order
try {
const response = await exchange.createOrder (symbol, orderType, side, amount, price);
console.log (response);
console.log ('Succeeded');
} catch (e) {
console.log (exchange.iso8601 (Date.now ()), e.constructor.name, e.message)
console.log ('Failed');
}
}) ()