Just two questions for my edification: 1. Why did HTTP get grouped into exceptions 2. Is there a security reason not to catch all non-http exceptions, ie except EXCEPTION
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Mark Billion <markbill...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks guys -- that makes a ton of sense. I really appreciate it. > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> More specifically, when you provide the "next" argument to >> SQLFORM.process(), it ultimately calls redirect(), which raises an HTTP >> exception. If you put the .process() call inside a try/except, that HTTP >> exception will get caught, and in your case, you are then ignoring it. We >> should probably spell this out more clearly in the book. >> >> You could instead do something like: >> >> except Exception as e: >> if isinstance(e, HTTP): >> raise e # re-raise the exception in case of a redirect >> redirect(URL('index')) >> >> But generally it is much better to catch specific exceptions. >> >> Anthony >> >> >> On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 2:44:57 PM UTC-5, Niphlod wrote: >>> >>> are you aware that in web2py any HTTP is a subclass of exception ? >>> Never, never, never use an exception without specifying what exception your >>> code may raise. >>> >>> On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 7:34:45 PM UTC+1, Mark Billion wrote: >>>> >>>> Why are you using an except without specifying the exception? Trying to >>>> catch all possible exceptions. >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 1:31:21 PM UTC-5, Leonel Câmara wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Why are you using an except without specifying the exception? Anyway >>>>> just do this: >>>>> >>>>> @auth.requires_login() >>>>> def cli_add(): >>>>> db.client.au_usr.default = auth.user_id >>>>> form = SQLFORM(db.client, fields = ['d_fn', 'd_ln', 'd_aka', >>>>> 'd_ss'], labels = {'d_ss': 'Social Security', 'd_aka': 'Any Aliases', >>>>> 'd_65': 'Older than 65'}).process(next=URL('clients')) >>>>> return dict(form=form) >>>>> >>>>> -- >> Resources: >> - http://web2py.com >> - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) >> - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) >> - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "web2py-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/hWvrDzyR49M/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Mark M. Billion > 1904 N. Lincoln > Wilmington, DE 19806 > 302.416.2199 > -- Mark M. Billion 1904 N. Lincoln Wilmington, DE 19806 302.416.2199 -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.