Re: Exception handling in Spring-MVC/FreeMarker web applications

Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 10:25:53 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> Maybe... but if the handler rethrows the exception, what catches it in the
> SpringMVC environment?

I don't know... that's in the hands of Spring MVC. If it doesn't
handle it properly, you may try to pull some dirty trick in a custom
TemplateExceptionHandler implementation, although best would be if the
thing is fixed in Spring MVC then.

> How would my app know to force a 500 error response
> back to the client? I'm trying to get my brain round that. I think I need
> to experiment a bit.
>
> Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote on 10/21/2009 02:08:39 PM:
>
>> Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 9:58:17 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> > That's great. I think I need either IGNORE_HANDLER or perhaps develop
> my
>> > own custom handler. Either way, this is the key. Thanks!
>>
>> Nah, certainly you want the "rethrow" handler... Unless you want buggy
>> templates to return a some half-done response without showing any
>> error message to the user.
>>
>> > "Newman, John W" <[email protected]> wrote on 10/21/2009
> 01:13:57
>> > PM:
>> >
>> >> Hi -
>> >>
>> >> Take a look at
>> >>
>> >>       configuration.
>> >> setTemplateExceptionHandler(TemplateExceptionHandler.RETHROW_HANDLER);
>> >>
>> >> RETHROW_HANDLER may not be what you want ... I forget what each
>> >> does, there are a few different options.  But that's the setting
> you're
>> > after
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> > [snip]
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>>  Daniel Dekany

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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