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"""

Tutorial: HTTP errors

HTTPError is used to return an error response to the client.
CherryPy has lots of options regarding how such errors are
logged, displayed, and formatted.

"""

import os
localDir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
curpath = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), localDir))

import cherrypy


class HTTPErrorDemo(object):

    # Set a custom response for 403 errors.
    _cp_config = {'error_page.403' : os.path.join(curpath, "custom_error.html")}

    def index(self):
        # display some links that will result in errors
        tracebacks = cherrypy.request.show_tracebacks
        if tracebacks:
            trace = 'off'
        else:
            trace = 'on'

        return """
        <html><body>
            <h2><a href="toggleTracebacks">Toggle tracebacks %s</a></h2>
            <p><a href="/doesNotExist">Click me; I'm a broken link!</a></p>
            <p><a href="/error?code=403">Use a custom an error page from a file.</a></p>
            <p>These errors are explicitly raised by the application:</p>
            <ul>
                <li><a href="/error?code=400">400</a></li>
                <li><a href="/error?code=401">401</a></li>
                <li><a href="/error?code=402">402</a></li>
                <li><a href="/error?code=500">500</a></li>
            </ul>
            <p><a href="/messageArg">You can also set the response body
            when you raise an error.</a></p>
        </body></html>
        """ % trace
    index.exposed = True

    def toggleTracebacks(self):
        # simple function to toggle tracebacks on and off
        tracebacks = cherrypy.request.show_tracebacks
        cherrypy.config.update({'request.show_tracebacks': not tracebacks})

        # redirect back to the index
        raise cherrypy.HTTPRedirect('/')
    toggleTracebacks.exposed = True

    def error(self, code):
        # raise an error based on the get query
        raise cherrypy.HTTPError(status = code)
    error.exposed = True

    def messageArg(self):
        message = ("If you construct an HTTPError with a 'message' "
                   "argument, it wil be placed on the error page "
                   "(underneath the status line by default).")
        raise cherrypy.HTTPError(500, message=message)
    messageArg.exposed = True


cherrypy.tree.mount(HTTPErrorDemo())


if __name__ == '__main__':
    import os.path
    thisdir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
    cherrypy.quickstart(config=os.path.join(thisdir, 'tutorial.conf'))
author	Steve Losh <steve@stevelosh.com>
date	Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:45:54 -0500
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children	(none)