Hi all,
Some time in late 2003, Adrian and I decided that errors in templates
were best handled silently - the idea was that it would prevent
untrained template editors from being able to 500-error a site with a
typo.
Is it too late to reconsider this decision, four and a half years
later? I can't think of a single time this feature has helped me, and
plenty of examples of times that it has tripped me up.
Today's example: a <form action=""> tag that shouldn't have been
blank. The code looked like this:
<form action="{% url something-with-a-typo %}">
If you look at Django's URL tag implementation, you can see why:
http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/template/defaulttags.py?rev=6996#L364
The code catches the NoReverseMatch exception and silences it,
outputting an empty string instead.
Silent errors are bad. If we were to remove them, how much of a
negative impact would it have on the existing user base?
Cheers,
Simon
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