Using the Restlet API, can an application handle an Exception that propagates out of the Jakarta Commons HTTP client software? It doesn't propagate out of the Restlet API, and I haven't found a way to get it from the Restlet objects. I hope you can tell me where to look.
An exception is often more useful than a Status. The exception has a stack trace and perhaps a chain of causes (nested exceptions), which often clarify what happened. There was a previous discussion of this: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.restlet/2217 I would suggest a different approach; that is to contain the Exception somewhere within the Response, perhaps as an attribute. For example, an application might choose to propagate the exception thus: throw (Exception) response.getAttributes().get("org.restlet.status.exception");
