From 4567ffea41fcfe126b07ef78a7073b7f456ee012 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Domagoj Kriskovic <dom.kriskovic@overleaf.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:22:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [web] error handling for BibTeX entry addition using \cite

GitOrigin-RevId: efdf39a959fda7d2f970860051e1fabd72474ab1
---
 services/web/frontend/extracted-translations.json     | 2 ++
 services/web/frontend/js/infrastructure/fetch-json.ts | 7 +++++++
 services/web/locales/en.json                          | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/services/web/frontend/extracted-translations.json b/services/web/frontend/extracted-translations.json
index 6325078a57..a0be14ed4c 100644
--- a/services/web/frontend/extracted-translations.json
+++ b/services/web/frontend/extracted-translations.json
@@ -371,6 +371,8 @@
   "copy_response": "",
   "copying": "",
   "cost_summary": "",
+  "could_not_save_reference_to_bib_file": "",
+  "could_not_save_reference_to_bib_file_forbidden": "",
   "country": "",
   "country_flag": "",
   "coupon_code": "",
diff --git a/services/web/frontend/js/infrastructure/fetch-json.ts b/services/web/frontend/js/infrastructure/fetch-json.ts
index 1d3af35451..12600763cd 100644
--- a/services/web/frontend/js/infrastructure/fetch-json.ts
+++ b/services/web/frontend/js/infrastructure/fetch-json.ts
@@ -251,3 +251,10 @@ export function isRateLimited(error?: Error | FetchError | any) {
   }
   return false
 }
+
+export function isForbidden(error?: Error | FetchError | any) {
+  if (error && error instanceof FetchError) {
+    return error.response?.status === 403
+  }
+  return false
+}
diff --git a/services/web/locales/en.json b/services/web/locales/en.json
index 2cc51684fe..91608c7b9e 100644
--- a/services/web/locales/en.json
+++ b/services/web/locales/en.json
@@ -502,6 +502,8 @@
   "could_not_connect_to_collaboration_server": "Could not connect to collaboration server",
   "could_not_connect_to_websocket_server": "Could not connect to WebSocket server",
   "could_not_load_translations": "Could not load translations",
+  "could_not_save_reference_to_bib_file": "The reference could not be saved to a .bib file.",
+  "could_not_save_reference_to_bib_file_forbidden": "The reference could not be saved to a .bib file. Ask a collaborator with edit access to add it.",
   "country": "Country",
   "country_flag": "__country__ country flag",
   "coupon_code": "Coupon code",