Thanks Brandon, that's great for informing a critical start-up issue; however you raise the exception so will the end user not see the exception in their browser? I would prefer to provide a more user friendly message within a custom 500 page.
Just out of curiosity why use xmpp instead of email for error notification? Cheers, J. On May 26, 3:52 pm, Brandon Thomson <[email protected]> wrote: > I recommend the "try expect:" in main.py, it's pretty easy. I have > been using this: > > try: > ... > except: > import os > > if os.environ.get('SERVER_SOFTWARE','').startswith('Goog'): > from google.appengine.api import xmpp > import traceback > import logging > > msg = "Exception during app startup:\n\n" > tb_txt = msg + traceback.format_exc() > > user_gtalk = '[email protected]' > if xmpp.get_presence(user_gtalk): > xmpp.send_message(user_gtalk, tb_txt) > > logging.critical(tb_txt) > raise > else: > raise > > On May 25, 10:30 pm, jonmidd <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > How do we best cope with these exceptions? > > > Currently my app is failing to import a file in the top most url.py > > file due to a google.appengine.runtime.DeadlineExceededError > > exception. > > > I am using Django, is there a top most place I can catch all > > exceptions and display a custom 500 message to the user? > > > Currently they get the uncaught exception message which is not ideal. > > > Do I have to put a try catch statement around the imports in the > > url.py file? > > > Or is it best to add this to the main.py > > > def main(): > > try: > > # Create a Django application for WSGI. > > application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler() > > > # Run the WSGI CGI handler with that application. > > util.run_wsgi_app(application) > > except: > > from django.shortcuts import render_to_response > > return render_to_response( '500.html' ) > > > Thanks. > > > On May 26, 7:58 am, Andrew Cebulski <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > +1 Google Apps Short Links (runs Python) down too... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
