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Reporting exceptions on the client ui [message #1818372]

Fri, 13 December 2019 08:36

Eclipse User

Good day,

I would like to display a message box for any exceptions that are thrown from the server instead of the default message box that is displayed.

What I am struggling with is that if I throw a checked or runtime exception, the information in the exception is lost and a generic ProcessingException is received by the client.

I have tried to throw a custom ProcessingException (much like the VetoException) but that also becomes a generic ProcessingException on the client. The ProcessException would be perfect because I could encode the context of the exception and provide processing status information.

I have a suspicion that I might have to provide a subclass of DefaultRuntimeExceptionTranslator that handles this case for me. If this is correct then could you please indicate where the translator should be registered or should I provide it via @Replace?

Kind regards,
Mark Ashworth

Re: Reporting exceptions on the client ui [message #1818373 is a reply to message #1818372]

Fri, 13 December 2019 09:12

Eclipse User

Hi Mark

You are right: Exceptions thrown on the backend are transformed before sending to the client. This is important for security reasons. Because such exceptions might leak sensitive information (like e.g. database setups if the exceptions occur because the database could not be reached) or implementation details to the caller. Depending on the exception such details might event be displayed to end users.

This transformation is performed in the method 'interceptException' of the bean 'org.eclipse.scout.rt.server.ServiceOperationInvoker' on the backend and may be modified by replacing this bean in your code (subclass the bean and annotate it with @Replace). But we do not recommend it because of the risk to send sensitive details to clients.

If you want to send more details to the client, you can use a 'VetoException'. The title, html message, code and severity of such exceptions is sent to the client.

Hope this helps
Mat

Re: Reporting exceptions on the client ui [message #1818548 is a reply to message #1818373]

Thu, 19 December 2019 05:39

Eclipse User

Good day Mat,

Thank you.

I had a look at the 'interceptException' method and it makes sense why the exceptions are being translated. I will utilize the VetoException for the use case.

Kind regards,
Mark Ashworth

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