[CONF] Apache Sling Website > Errorhandling

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Errorhandling Page edited by Felix Meschberger Handling Errors The Sling Engine includes support for handling uncaught Throwable as well as rendering custom HTTP status code pages. This is implemented by expecting a (single) org.apache.sling.engine.servlets.ErrorHandler service to which handling of uncaught Throwable and HTTP status responses are delegated. The Sling Servlet Resolver bundle implements this interface by providing an elaborate mechanism to find the correct error handling script or servlet using the same algorithms as are used to select the scripts or servlets to handle regular requests. This page provides more information on how error handler scripts are selected and what is provided out of the box. HTTP Status Codes The Sling engine implements the HttpServletResponse.sendError methods by calling the ErrorHandler.handleError(int status, String message, SlingHttpServletRequest request, SlingHttpServletResponse response) method. The Servlet Resolver bundle implementation looks up a script to handle the status code as follows: The status code is converted to a string and used as the request extension. Any request extensions, selectors or suffixes from the actual request are ignored. The same resource type hierarchy is followed to find the script as for regular script resolution. The difference is that for error handler scripts sling/servlet/errorhandler is used as the implied base resource type (as opposed to sling/servlet/default for regular script resolution. Examples: An application provider my provide a default handler for the 404/NOT FOUND status. This script might be located in /libs/sling/servlet/errorhandler/404.jsp. An programmer might provide a handler for the 500/INTERNAL SERVER ERROR status in /apps/sling/servlet/errorhandler/500.esp. Uncaught Throwables To handle uncaught Throwables the simple name (Class.getSimpleName()) of the Throwable class is used as request extension. Similarly to the Java try-catch clauses the class hierarchy is supported. That is to handle an uncaught FileNotFoundException, the names FileNotFoundException, IOException, Exception, Throwable are checked for a Servlet and the first one found is then used. Again, the Serlvet may be a Servlet registered as an OSGi service or may be a plain script stored in the JCR repository or provided through some custom Resource provider. Example: To register a catch-all handler for any uncaught Throwables you might create a script /apps/sling/servlet/errorhandler/Throwable.esp. Default Handler The Sling Servlet Resolver bundle provides a default error handler servlet which is used if the algorithms described above do not resolve to a handler script or servlet. The provided error handler servlet does the following: Print a descriptive message, which is the javax.servlet.error.message request attribute by default Print a stacktrace if the javax.servlet.error.exception is set Dump the request progress tracker Starting with Sling Servlet Resolver version 2.0.10 the default error handler servlet is looked up using the string default as the request extension and the provided default servlet is registered as <prefix>/sling/servlet/errorhandler/default.servlet where <prefix> is the last entry in the resource resolver search path, /libs by default. Thus to overwrite the default error handler servlet provide a servlet or script for the default extension, for example /apps/sling/servlet/errorhandler/default.groovy. Change Notification Preferences View Online | View Change | Add Comment