Michael Melhem wrote:
> Dear Cocoon community,
>
> It seems to me that pipelines can only handle two error cases:
> Namely error 500 (General Exception) and error
> 404 (ResourceNotFoundException).
Wrong.
> There appears to be no way currently to handle specific errors
> that might be thrown by pipeline components other than to
> render a general Error 500 page. Am I mistaken?
Yes.
> For example, it may be the case that a custom built generator could
> throw custom Exceptions that a developer would like to
> handle in a specific fashion.
Sure.
Make your Exception implement Notifying, and all the information you may
need is in the generated xml and cen be taken from the environment.
>
> To that end, I propose that pipeline be extendend so that it they can handle X
>number of errors depending on the amount of <map:handle-errors> defined in the
>sitemap for that pipeline.
>
> <sitemap>
> ...
>
> <map:handle-errors type="500">
> <map:transform src="stylesheets/error2html.xsl"/>
> <map:serialize/>
> </map:handle-errors>
>
> <map:handle-errors type="404">
> <map:transform src="stylesheets/error2html.xsl"/>
> <map:serialize />
> </map:handle-errors>
>
> <!-- one more or extra error-handles -->
> <map:handle-errors type="someSpecificException">
> <-- "type" here could me some sort of short code or the actual
> full name of the Exception class? -->
> <map:transform src="stylesheets/SpecificError2html.xsl"/>
> <map:serialize status-code="500"/>
> </map:handle-errors>
>
> etc..
> </sitemap>
>
> Does anyone see any problems with this approach? Comments?
There is no need for this.
We just need a selector to select between errors inside handle-errors.
Why didn't you know this?
Because it's poorly documented.
Who is the sucker?
<ducking> ;-P
Diana, there is a need for docs on error generation.
Where do I start?
(me lazy on docs and Andy Oliver kicks my butt for this ;-)
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