[Catalyst-dev] RFC: Catalyst::Action::RenderView::ErrorHandler

[John Napiorkowski]

--- Brian Cassidy <brian.cassidy at nald.ca> wrote:

> Andreas Marienborg wrote:
> > I was in need of a better way to handle errors
> than the "Please come 
> > back later" screen, and spent some time trying to
> find a good general 
> > solution.
> > 
> > The current result is
> Catalyst::Action::RenderView::ErrorHandler.
> 
> My preference has been to use an
> Exception::Class-based system. I've put 
> up some details in my blog [1] [2]. By default it
> just renders 
> "error.tt" for any fatal error, though it could
> easily be extended to 
> render which ever template is associated with the
> exception.
> 
> -Brian
> 
> [1]
>
http://bricas.vox.com/library/post/catalyst-exceptionclass.html
> [2]
>
http://bricas.vox.com/library/post/catalyst-exceptionclass-detach.html
> 

Maybe an OT question but what's the purpose of the
line:

$Catalyst::Exception::CATALYST_EXCEPTION_CLASS =
'MyApp::Exception';

in the sample from your blog?  Seems like Catalyst
will catch the exceptions I've been throwing with or
without it.

--john

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