[Dbix-class] Is there a framework for translating raw database errors into human-readable errors

[Patrick Meidl]

On Wed, May 30 2012, Robert Rothenberg <robrwo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am working on a web application and would like to translate (Postgres)
> database error messages into human readable forms, e.g. catching errors like
> 
>   qr/null value in column "name" violates not-null constraint/
> 
> and returning a message to the user like
> 
>   The Name field cannot be blank.
> 
> Before I write my own, is there an existing framework?

most form handling modules do validation for you. I use
HTML::FormHandler (in a Catalyst app, but you should be able to use it
with any other framework or plain cgi, too) which does input validation
with customisable error messages.

HTH

    patrick

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