From: richard <richard@57a73879-2fb5-44c3-a270-3262357dd7e2>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 07:13:14 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: beginnings of nicer web error handling
X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8528e55d7a0aa47d90a41ce4b028d89ed6a5537c;p=roundup.git

beginnings of nicer web error handling


git-svn-id: http://svn.roundup-tracker.org/svnroot/roundup/trunk@1534 57a73879-2fb5-44c3-a270-3262357dd7e2
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diff --git a/roundup/cgi/client.py b/roundup/cgi/client.py
index 4726d7b..1f23fae 100644
--- a/roundup/cgi/client.py
+++ b/roundup/cgi/client.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $Id: client.py,v 1.95 2003-02-18 10:58:32 richard Exp $
+# $Id: client.py,v 1.96 2003-02-20 07:13:14 richard Exp $
 
 __doc__ = """
 WWW request handler (also used in the stand-alone server).
@@ -15,20 +15,31 @@ from roundup.cgi import cgitb
 
 from roundup.cgi.PageTemplates import PageTemplate
 
-class Unauthorised(ValueError):
-    pass
-
-class NotFound(ValueError):
-    pass
-
-class Redirect(Exception):
+class HTTPException(Exception):
+      pass
+class  Unauthorised(HTTPException):
+       pass
+class  NotFound(HTTPException):
+       pass
+class  Redirect(HTTPException):
+       pass
+
+# XXX actually _use_ FormError
+class FormError(ValueError):
+    ''' An "expected" exception occurred during form parsing.
+        - ie. something we know can go wrong, and don't want to alarm the
+          user with
+
+        We trap this at the user interface level and feed back a nice error
+        to the user.
+    '''
     pass
 
 class SendFile(Exception):
-    ' Sent a file from the database '
+    ''' Send a file from the database '''
 
 class SendStaticFile(Exception):
-    ' Send a static file from the instance html directory '
+    ''' Send a static file from the instance html directory '''
 
 def initialiseSecurity(security):
     ''' Create some Permissions and Roles on the security object