Immediately fail completely when a non-validation error is encountered

index.js

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ const flatten = require("flatten");
 const ValidationError = require("@validatem/error");
 const combinator = require("@validatem/combinator");
 const validationResult = require("@validatem/validation-result");
+const matchValidationError = require("@validatem/match-validation-error");
 
 const areErrorsFromSameOrigin = require("./src/are-errors-from-same-origin");
 
@@ -62,12 +63,19 @@ module.exports = function (alternatives) {
 			for (let alternative of alternatives) {
 				let { errors, newValue } = applyValidators(value, alternative);
 				
-				if (errors.length === 0) {
-					return newValue;
-				} else if (errors.length === 1) {
-					allErrors.push(errors[0]);
+				let unexpectedErrors = errors.filter((error) => !matchValidationError(error));
+
+				if (unexpectedErrors.length > 0) {
+					// We want to immediately stop trying alternatives when a non-ValidationError occurred, since that means that something broke internally somewhere, and it is not safe to continue executing.
+					throw unexpectedErrors[0];
 				} else {
-					allErrors.push(errorAllOf(errors));
+					if (errors.length === 0) {
+						return newValue;
+					} else if (errors.length === 1) {
+						allErrors.push(errors[0]);
+					} else {
+						allErrors.push(errorAllOf(errors));
+					}
 				}
 			}
 

package.json

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "@validatem/combinator": "^0.1.1",
     "@validatem/error": "^1.0.0",
+    "@validatem/match-validation-error": "^0.1.0",
     "@validatem/validation-result": "^0.1.2",
     "flatten": "^1.0.3"
   }