Neat. I've been doing Django since the 0.9.6 days and have never written a middleware. I guess there's a first time for everything.
Thanks! ==================================== Steven L Smith, Web Developer Department of Information Technology Services Nazareth College of Rochester 585-389-2085 | ssmit...@naz.edu | KC2YTC http://www.naz.edu/pub/~ssmith46 ==================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Evans" <tevans...@googlemail.com> To: django-users@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:28:15 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: Returning a 503 response instead of a 500 response On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Steven L Smith <ssmit...@zimbra.naz.edu> wrote: > Some of our apps have to talk to databases outside of our control, and their > operators don't have the same uptime standards that we do... > > What can I do to make Django return a "503 Service Unavailable" instead of a > "500 Internal Server Error", when it encounters a DatabaseError or > ProgrammingError while trying to access the database? Bonus points if I could > make the 503 page say "there was a temporary database communication problem." > > I have some ideas of what I *could* modify, but I'd rather incorporate this > into a product or setting instead of having to patch the actual django > database backend code itself. > Exception handling is performed by middleware. When a django view encounters an un-handled exception, each installed middleware class is asked if it wants to handle this exception. If none do, Django sends out it's pre-canned response as it sees fit. So, simply write your own exception handling middleware that handles DatabaseError or ProgrammingError, and passes on other errors. See the docs for more details: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/http/middleware/#process-exception Cheers Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
