CFERROR tag doesn't overwrite the Admin error template setting

Pierre_Larde · March 2, 2023, 8:30pm

I added this line in application.cfm
cferror type = “exception” template = “arpille_error.cfm”

I go to a forced error to check
And I still have the admin error yellow template.

Any idea why ?

Lucee 5.3.9.133
Linux debian 10

andreas · March 3, 2023, 9:11am

Hi Pierre, this is just a guess… Is it possible that adding the attribute exception ="any" resolves your issue? I think the docs explicitly says this attribute is required if you have attribute type="exception'.

See <cferror> :: Lucee Documentation

Just saw that the docs needs to have the values for the exception attribute added.

Pierre_Larde · March 3, 2023, 11:12am

Yes that is : adding exception=any does work for
non existing variables or bad cfquey,
I did not try other errors,
but I think, that have solved the problem.
Thanks you.

AdamCameron · March 4, 2023, 9:59am

Required if type = “exception” or “monitor”.

If it’s required in this case, should it not throw a compile-time exception if it’s not present?

This would have helped Pierre solve his issue faster if Lucee actually behaved the way it claimes it is supposed to in the given situation, yeah?

andreas · March 4, 2023, 10:19am

I’d say yes sure! Even better would be to follow ACF and have the default value of “any” for the attribute exception.

Pierre_Larde · March 4, 2023, 10:31am

You are right.
Also, I come from an old version of ColdFusion 9,
and in my memory and what I wrote some years ago, it seems that it was not required.
Now I know.
Thanks.

Zackster · March 4, 2023, 11:48pm

Can you file a bug, let’s make this experience better.

it does looks like it was meant to default to any

github.com

lucee/Lucee/blob/6.0/core/src/main/java/lucee/runtime/err/ErrorPageImpl.java#L26


      
          * License along with this library.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
          * 
          **/
          package lucee.runtime.err;
          
          
import lucee.runtime.PageSource;
          
          
public final class ErrorPageImpl implements ErrorPage {
          
          
	/** Type of exception. Required if type = "exception" or "monitor". */
          	private String exception = "any";
          
          
	/** The relative path to the custom error page. */
          	private PageSource template;
          
          
	/**
          	 * The e-mail address of the administrator to notify of the error. The value is available to your
          	 * custom error page in the MailTo property of the error object.
          	 */
          	private String mailto = "";

Also there’s this type=“monitor” reference, which doesn’t make sense?

here’s more or less all the exception types which are natively supported by Lucee, would be good to update the core definition with the list of types, is anything missing for acf-compat?

github.com

lucee/Lucee/blob/6.0/core/src/main/java/resource/tld/core-cfml.tld#L1001


      
          			<type>string</type>
          			<name>mailTo</name>
          			<status>deprecated</status>
          			<required>false</required>
          			<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
          			<description>The e-mail address of the administrator to notify of the error. The value
          	is available to your custom error page in the MailTo property of the error object.</description>
          		</attribute>
          		<attribute>
          			<type>string</type>
          			<name>exception</name>
          			<required>false</required>
          			<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
          			<description>Type of exception. Required if type = "exception" or "monitor".</description>
          		</attribute>
          	</tag>
          	
          	<!-- Function -->
          	<tag>
          		<name>function</name>
          		<tag-class>lucee.runtime.tag.Function</tag-class>

https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/cfml-reference/coldfusion-tags/tags-d-e/cferror.html