From c2042c86e9723c8446cf2bd5d1817e58205d4eac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wilfried Goesgens <willi@arangodb.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 15:14:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] abort testing if we fail to get the currently available
 collections during server startup (#8442)

---
 js/client/modules/@arangodb/test-utils.js | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/js/client/modules/@arangodb/test-utils.js b/js/client/modules/@arangodb/test-utils.js
index b7bc9e52e3..d07981e2c4 100755
--- a/js/client/modules/@arangodb/test-utils.js
+++ b/js/client/modules/@arangodb/test-utils.js
@@ -176,9 +176,20 @@ function performTests (options, testList, testname, runFn, serverOptions, startS
 
       let collectionsBefore = [];
       if (!serverDead) {
-        db._collections().forEach(collection => {
-          collectionsBefore.push(collection._name);
-        });
+        try {
+          db._collections().forEach(collection => {
+            collectionsBefore.push(collection._name);
+          });
+        }
+        catch (x) {
+          results[te] = {
+            status: false,
+            message: 'failed to fetch the currently available collections: ' + x.message + '. Original test status: ' + JSON.stringify(results[te])
+          };
+          continueTesting = false;
+          serverDead = true;
+          first = false;
+        }
       }
       while (first || options.loopEternal) {
         if (!continueTesting) {