Right. Well, if it's 5.3.x, you could just as well use tynamo's
tapestry-exceptionpage as a dependency with everything else pretty much
equal.

Kalle

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Bob Harner <bobhar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> No, sorry, it's 5.3.7. This particular project isn't ready to move to
> 5.4 yet. I had forgotten about your exception page additions to 5.4,
> thanks for the reminder. That's one of several new things in 5.4 that
> aren't yet well explained anywhere.
>
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Kalle Korhonen
> <kalle.o.korho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > For 5.4? Use exceptions, not error codes and the new contributable
> > DefaultExceptionHandler. 5.4 contains a built-in a version of
> > tapestry-exceptionpage (see
> http://tynamo.org/tapestry-exceptionpage+guide,
> > you can map exceptions to specific pages with context). I've written the
> > javadocs for 5.4 but I have yet to revise the cwiki documentation (and
> you
> > are welcome to help/take charge of that since its your specialty - and
> > thanks for the 5.3.8 release notes btw).
> >
> > Kalle
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Bob Harner <bobhar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi everybody,
> >>
> >> Whenever I follow the Error Page Recipe [1] to create custom a error
> >> response page, everything works fine except that, to my knowledge, the
> >> page can only have a fixed message. For example, my 403 error page
> >> always says "Sorry, you can't have that". That's fine, but what if I
> >> want my error pages to display the more specific underlying message?
> >>
> >> For example, the Java class for one of my app's regular pages has the
> >> following within an onActivate() method:
> >>
> >>             return new HttpError(500, "The database just blew up");
> >>
> >> which generates the proper 500 response to the container. Now, if I
> >> have NOT configured a custom error response for status 500 in my
> >> web.xml then my servlet container (Jetty, currently) dutifully
> >> displays the specific message (the "reason") that was given:
> >>
> >>             HTTP ERROR 500
> >>             Problem accessing /foo. Reason:
> >>             The database just blew up
> >>
> >> But I would really like to make the text of that 3rd line ("The
> >> database just blew up") visible within my (Tapestry) custom error
> >> page. Is there any way to get it? I tried injecting the Response
> >> object but it doesn't seem to contain anything I can use for this. I
> >> could copy the message to the session before calling return new
> >> HttpError(....) but -- yuk.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> [1] http://tapestry.apache.org/error-page-recipe.html
> >>
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