[Yanel-dev] Generic exception handler

[Michael Wechner]

On 1/25/11 2:38 PM, Cedric Staub wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 09:35:34AM +0000, Michael Wechner wrote:
>> On 1/24/11 10:03 AM, Cedric Staub wrote:
>>> Hello there!
>>>
>>> I wrote a resource called generic-exception-handler, which is called
>>> whenever an exception is thrown while a request is being processed.
>>> Yanel had this functionality built-in until now, but that made it
>>> impossible to overwrite the exception-handler with a custom version.
>>>
>>> With this extension it's possible to write your own custom exception
>>> handler and overwrite the generic exception handler's global resource
>>> config. That way you can get rid of the Yanel-specific error pages and
>>> install you own ones ;-).
>>
>> thanks very much :-) Can you please add it to Bugzilla and I will try to
>> review it
>> shortly
> See bug #8115.

it seems like this patch contains more files than the original post ;-)
>>> Note: The exception and stack trace are logged but not displayed in the
>>> browser. I don't feel the user needs to know the details of the inner
>>> workings of the application. The dev or sysadmin can just look at the
>>> logs anyway, and I feel stack traces are confusing to users.
>>>
>>> But what to others think? Stack trace: yes or no?
>> I understand that the stacktrace to the user can be odd, but on the
>> other hand some
>> users will copy/paste it and send it to some developer, which can be
>> useful, because
>> it might be a "one time" error which can be hard to find otherwise
>> within huge log-files.
>>
>> Hence I would suggest that the  stacktrace is "extensible" (e.g. via
>> CSS/Javascript)
> Ok, but do you have any ideas an how I could pass the Exception object
> to the resource?

not yet, but will tackle this shortly after I will have reviewed the 
patch from above.

Thanks

Michael
> Cheers
> Cedric