Would writing a middleware for this be a good idea? Then if we get the DNE, we just return 404 from process_exception. And during development we can just keep our middleware out, so that no real bugs beome 404. When we deploy, we can just switch this middleware on.
On Sep 20, 9:12 pm, Forest Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 08:47:57AM -0700, shabda wrote: > > I have a number of pages which can potentially raise the > > self.model.DoesNotExist exception. Whenever this exception is raised, > > it maps to a HTTP 404 for me. (That object does not exist in the > > database, so I cant show this, so I want to return a 404 exception). > > So apart from manually adding try-except to all my views, how can I > > return a 404 response on the self.model.DoesNotExist. > > You probably don't want to do this in your model. How about: > > from django.core.exceptions import ObjectDoesNotExist > from django.core.http import Http404 > > def 404_on_dne(wrapped): > def wrapper(*args, **kwargs): > try: > return wrapped(*args, **kwargs) > except ObjectDoesNotExist: > raise Http404 > return wrapper > > Then you can wrap your views: > > @404_on_dne > def my_view(request, arg1, arg2): > obj = Model.objects.get(...) > # do something > > I'm not entirely sure that you shouldn't just explicitly handle these > exceptions > in your views (you can end up masking some DNE exceptions that are really > bugs), > but that's a way to do what you want. > > Disclaimer: I haven't tried any of this code. Might have bugs. > > -Forest > -- > Forest Bondhttp://www.alittletooquiet.net > > signature.asc > 1KDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
