It might be a Python newbie question...
try:
#do something
except:
raise Exception(\'XYZ has gone wrong...\')
Even with DEBUG=True,
You can raise a 404 error or simply redirect user onto your custom error page with error message
from django.http import Http404
#...
def your_view(request)
#...
try:
#... do something
except:
raise Http404
#or
return redirect('your-custom-error-view-name', error='error messsage')
Another suggestion could be to use Django messaging framework to display flash messages, instead of an error page.
from django.contrib import messages
#...
def another_view(request):
#...
context = {'foo': 'bar'}
try:
#... some stuff here
except SomeException as e:
messages.add_message(request, messages.ERROR, e)
return render(request, 'appname/another_view.html', context)
And then in the view as in Django documentation:
{% if messages %}
<ul class="messages">
{% for message in messages %}
<li{% if message.tags %} class="{{ message.tags }}"{% endif %}>{{ message }}</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
{% endif %}
If you want to get proper traceback and message as well. Then I will suggest using a custom middleware and add it to the settings.py middleware section at the end.
The following code will process the exception only in production. You may remove the DEBUG condition if you wish.
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.conf import settings
import traceback
class ErrorHandlerMiddleware:
def __init__(self, get_response):
self.get_response = get_response
def __call__(self, request):
response = self.get_response(request)
return response
def process_exception(self, request, exception):
if not settings.DEBUG:
if exception:
message = "{url}\n{error}\n{tb}".format(
url=request.build_absolute_uri(),
error=repr(exception),
tb=traceback.format_exc()
)
# Do whatever with the message now
return HttpResponse("Error processing the request.", status=500)
You have three options here.
process_exception
implementedMiddleware Example:
class MyExceptionMiddleware(object):
def process_exception(self, request, exception):
if not isinstance(exception, SomeExceptionType):
return None
return HttpResponse('some message')