Re: auditor raises an exception

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:51:13AM -0800, Tom Ekberg wrote:
> I wrote an auditor that checks to make sure that certain prohibited
> characters are not present. The code works fine, except that when the
> check finds prohibited characters it has to raise an exception
> (Reject) to indicate failure. The user is presented with a 'An error
> has occurred' page, and I, as the admin, get an email with the stack
> trace. What I'd like is to have the user shown the error, similar to
> what happens when a user fails to enter data in a required field. Is
> it possible to hook into that part of roundup, or should I raise a
> different exception? I have tried Reject and ValueError - both send me
> the stack trace and show the user the 'An error has occurred' page.

Can you show us the code?
Raising a Reject in an auditor (not in a reactor which runs *after* the
datebase is updated) should give you a nice error message in the web
interface, same for ValueError (for historical reasons in the ancient
past of roundup).

Ralf
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