[Zope3-dev] Exception Handling in ZopePublication

[Stephan Richter]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Eckart Hertzler wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a question about the exception handling
> of ZopePublication.
> 
> I have a custom exception view for the Unauthorized exception, that needs to 
> know in which object the Exception was raised.
> 
> The intended behaviour seems to be to provide this information as the location 
> of the exception during execution of handleException.
> 
> At least that is how I interpret this comment:
> [snip]
>                 # We need to get a location, because some template content of
>                 # the exception view might require one. 
> [snip]
> 
> But if an Unauthorized exception is raised during traversal, the location will 
> always be the root folder (or the value returned from the call to 
> getApplication), which is not very interesting in my case.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better if something like request._last_obj_traversed is used ?

I agree, this would be better.

Regards,
Stephan

PS: My computer is down due to a broken CPU fan. So I will be less 
responsive than usual.