Error Handling In Coldfusion
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Error Handling and Debugging Error Handling By Simon Free ← Previous Next → coldfusion cfscript onerror While the best efforts are made to stop errors from happening, they do happen. Sometimes the errors might be
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due to some bad code; other times it may be due to external resources that are out of one's control. During the development process, these errors hold valuable information that allows us coldfusion custom error page to improve and fix our code, but in production environments, these errors hold information that can make our servers vulnerable to attack. It is important that as a developer you anticipate errors and gracefully handle them. Thankfully, ColdFusion offers a number of ways to trap those errors and even allow developers to react to those errors and call alternative functionality. Understanding Errors Error Types coldfusion cferror Before we look at how to handle the errors, lets first take a look at the errors themselves. There are three types of ColdFusion Errors: Exception: Where the error stops the request from completing its process. Missing Template: When an HTTP request for a page can not be found. Form Field Data Validation: When server side form validation fails. The most common error type you are going to experience is the Exception type. Unless the users are requesting a page that does not exist, or you have decided to use ColdFusions in-built form validation (not recommended by most ColdFusion developers), you will receive an Exception error. These exception errors, excluding custom errors, fall into one of the following exception types: Database: When there is a problem with a database call, such as malformed SQL or database connection issue. MissingInclude: When an included file can not be found. Template: When a general error occurs, usually from a malformed tag or incorrect script syntax. Object: When an error occurs with an object. Security: When an error occurs related to security functionality. Expression: When an expression fails, such as 1 + "a". Lock: Wh
ColdFusion I’ve done more than a few posts recently about error handling and robust exception information, so I thought I’d write up one blog entry that can serve as a nice guide for folks to bookmark. By using “Complete”
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in the title, I’ve also virtually assured that I will forget something critical, so please, coldfusion 8 error handling send suggestions for what I’ve missed. Let’s get started. What is the point of this guide? Unless you are a perfect
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code, there is a chance that your ColdFusion application will have errors in it. The question is - what are you doing with your errors? What was the last error that occurred on your site? If http://www.learncfinaweek.com/week1/Error_Handling/ I asked you how many errors your site threw yesterday, could you answer with 100% complete accuracy? I’d be willing to bet most people would say no. Shoot, I know I couldn’t answer that. So what do we do to help resolve this issue? The first thing I want you to do is to create an error. Create a new CFM file named errortest.cfm. Insert one line into it:
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world as long as the Muse you have heard of Mary Jo Sminkey. Mary Jo built a popular ColdFusion ecommerce platform called CFWebstore. She has vast experience in ColdFusion and a seemingly boundless fountain of energy. Her eclectic interests range from technology to baking to dog training. As far as CF Webtools and the Muse can tell, Mary Jo excels at everything she does. We frankly suspect she is actually twins or triplets pretending to be only one person :) The following article is by Mary Jo and details her approach to application specific error handling. She has a detailed and thorough knowledge of the topic. Using this approach she has been able to reduce the number of errors on a very high traffic E-commerce site to practically nil. In the first of 2 articles MJ (as we call her with great affection) details the structure and usage of the handler. Building a Robust Error Handler (by Mary Jo Sminkey) Let's face it, sometimes we put less effort into the error handler than into the rest of our code. We might put something in place that throws up a "user friendly" page, and maybe email a dump of the catch or error structure, but when the site goes live, and we are deluged with errors due to search bots, hack attempts and poorly coded pages we turn it off or send all those emails to a seldom-visited mailbox. Sometimes we implement error handling as cftry/cfcatch blocks that do little more than preventing errors from being thrown, instead of helping us track down the issue. I look at the error handler as a way to help make a site as bug-free as possible. By having it email me as much information as possible about errors, I troubleshoot, fix and patch, and get to a point where errors are the exception rather than the rule. In this article, we'll look at building a single-page, comprehensive error handler. In a future article, we'll look at integrating that error handler with the open source bug tracker BugLogHQ. Before we begin with our error handler let's talk about our error handling strategy. Error Handling Strategy Obviously global error handling is a last ditch attempt to catch errors, and only part of a complete strategy for trapping errors. This article assumes you are using things like cftry/cfcatch in your code to handle expected issues that can arise (not just to hide errors). For example, on one application with a controller approach (a main logic file that dictates behaviors and actions), the controllers include many cfparams for URL variables. I updated the cfpara