test: refactor common.expectsError

This completely refactors the `expectsError` behavior: so far it's
almost identical to `assert.throws(fn, object)` in case it was used
with a function as first argument. It had a magical property check
that allowed to verify a functions `type` in case `type` was passed
used in the validation object. This pattern is now completely removed
and `assert.throws()` should be used instead.

The main intent for `common.expectsError()` is to verify error cases
for callback based APIs. This is now more flexible by accepting all
validation possibilites that `assert.throws()` accepts as well. No
magical properties exist anymore. This reduces surprising behavior
for developers who are not used to the Node.js core code base.

This has the side effect that `common` is used significantly less
frequent.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/31092
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/test/parallel/test-path.js b/test/parallel/test-path.js
index 9672e82c7f..7a5f3d4715 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-path.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-path.js
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ const typeErrorTests = [true, false, 7, null, {}, undefined, [], NaN];
 function fail(fn) {
   const args = Array.from(arguments).slice(1);
 
-  common.expectsError(() => {
+  assert.throws(() => {
     fn.apply(null, args);
-  }, { code: 'ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE', type: TypeError });
+  }, { code: 'ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE', name: 'TypeError' });
 }
 
 typeErrorTests.forEach((test) => {