Re: D2W Exception Handling
Re: D2W Exception Handling
- Subject: Re: D2W Exception Handling
- From: Ramsey Gurley <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:51:58 -0700
On Aug 26, 2011, at 2:05 AM, David Avendasora wrote:
> Hey D2Wers,
>
> So, I have business logic that executes in the setter of one of my attributes.
In the setter? Any reason why you don't use validate<Key>() or maybe validateFor*()? I've learned the hard way that business logic in a setter is a sign of bad things to come. It's like exposing PKs and FKs. It works… sorta, for a while… but sooner or later… BLAM!
> It's checking to make sure that at least one of a set of objects has a flag set. If you try to remove the flag off the last object it should not allow it and throw and exception.
>
> All that works just fine.
>
> Now I want to catch that exception and display it to the user in a friendly way. Ideally basically the same as how standard validation exceptions are displayed in red at the top of the page in ERModernLook.
>
> I've tried throwing a ValidationException and also tried other exceptions, and either it is ignored with no user feedback (ValidationException), or I get the standard, completely disruptive exception page (for all others).
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> I've tried to find the extension point to put in my own exception handling, but it's apparently not where I thought it was - ERD2WInspectPage#tryToSaveChanges.
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> Am I doing it wrong, or just looking in the wrong place?
>
> Dave
I suspect your validation exception may be getting swallowed in ERD2WPage's validationFailedWithException method. Put a breakpoint in there and follow the execution. If you throw an ERXValidationException and the d2wContext().propertyKey() is null, then the exception never makes it into the error messages dictionary.
I've planned on fixing this, but I want to make the validation handling use a plugable delegate with a default similar to the one now. That way, I hope to build a new implementation so that I can provide enhanced validation on something like an editable list page where you may have multiple objects with different validation exceptions related to them.
Ramsey
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