From a603d3e75f67b5641b1049b5b53de2f6bf035a88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Filip Hendrik <stoatally@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 02:13:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Throw exceptions on error, check that we have results and
 always close the curl connection.

---
 LBRY.class.php | 21 +++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/LBRY.class.php b/LBRY.class.php
index 85906bef..e3800e93 100644
--- a/LBRY.class.php
+++ b/LBRY.class.php
@@ -13,22 +13,27 @@ class LBRY
     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode(['method' => $function, 'params' => $params]));
     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
 
-    $server_output = curl_exec($ch);
+    $serverOutput = curl_exec($ch);
+    curl_close($ch);
 
-    if ($server_output)
+    if ($serverOutput)
     {
-      $responseData = json_decode($server_output, true);
-      return $responseData['result'];
+      $responseData = json_decode($serverOutput, true);
+
+      if (isset($responseData['error'])) {
+        throw new Exception($responseData['error']);
+      }
+
+      if (isset($responseData['result'])) {
+        return $responseData['result'];
+      }
     }
-
-    curl_close ($ch);
-
-    return $server_output;
   }
 
   public static function findTopPublicFreeClaim($name)
   {
     $claims = LBRY::api('claim_list', ['name' => $name]);
+
     if (!$claims || !isset($claims['claims']))
     {
       return null;