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[RFC PATCH v7 2.5/9] gitweb: Make die_error just die, and use send_error to create error pages

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 4, 2011, 00:35 UTC
Message-ID
<201101040135.08638.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20101222235525.7998.99816.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

Unify error handling by treating errors from Perl (and thrown early in process using 'die STRING'), and errors from gitweb in the same way. This means that in both cases error page is generated after an error is caught in run() subroutine.

die_error() subroutine is now split into three: gen_error() which massages parameters (escaping HTML, turning HTTP status number into full HTTP status code), die_error() which uses gen_error() and just throws an error (and does not generate an error page), and send_error() which catually generate error page based on provided error / exception.

Sidenote: probably in the future instead of using simple hash for
throwing gitweb exception, gitweb would use some custom error class,
e.g. derivative of Exception::Class (like SVN::Web does it).
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
---
This is sent early to facilitate early comments.  It passes test suite,
but it was not extensively tested.
Now die_error() functions mode like 'die'...
 gitweb/gitweb.perl |   47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index c7a1892..5854f73 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -1153,9 +1154,13 @@ sub run {
 			if $pre_dispatch_hook;
 
 		eval { run_request() };
-		if (defined $@ && !ref($@)) {
+		my $error = $@;
+		if ($error) {
 			# some Perl error, but not one thrown by die_error
-			die_error(undef, undef, $@, -error_handler => 1);
+			$error = gen_error(undef, undef, $error)
+				unless ref($error);
+
+			send_error($error);
 		}
 
 	DONE_REQUEST:
@@ -3730,11 +3735,14 @@ sub git_footer_html {
 #      an unknown error occurred (e.g. the git binary died unexpectedly).
 # 503: The server is currently unavailable (because it is overloaded,
 #      or down for maintenance).  Generally, this is a temporary state.
-sub die_error {
+
+# gen_error()  generates error object from parameters
+# die_error()  uses gen_error() to generate error object and dies
+# send_error() generates an error page from provided error object
+sub gen_error {
 	my $status = shift || 500;
 	my $error = esc_html(shift) || "Internal Server Error";
 	my $extra = shift;
-	my %opts = @_;
 
 	my %http_responses = (
 		400 => '400 Bad Request',
@@ -3743,23 +3751,40 @@ sub die_error {
 		500 => '500 Internal Server Error',
 		503 => '503 Service Unavailable',
 	);
-	git_header_html($http_responses{$status}, undef, %opts);
+
+	my $err = {
+		'status' => $status,
+		'http_status' => $http_responses{$status},
+		'error'  => $error,
+		'extra'  => $extra,
+	};
+	return $err;
+}
+
+sub die_error {
+	my $error = gen_error(@_);
+	print STDERR Dumper($error);
+	die $error;
+}
+
+sub send_error {
+	my $error = shift;
+
+	git_header_html($error->{'http_status'}, undef);
+
 	print <<EOF;
 <div class="page_body">
 <br /><br />
-$status - $error
+$error->{'status'} - $error->{'error'}
 <br />
 EOF
-	if (defined $extra) {
+	if (defined $error->{'extra'}) {
 		print "<hr />\n" .
-		      "$extra\n";
+		      "$error->{'extra'}\n";
 	}
 	print "</div>\n";
 
 	git_footer_html();
-
-	die {'status' => $status, 'error' => $error}
-		unless ($opts{'-error_handler'});
 }
 
 ## ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-- 
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  1. 0/9 gitweb: Output caching, with eval/die based error handlingJakub Narebski, Dec 22, 2010
  2. 1/9 gitweb: Go to DONE_REQUEST rather than DONE_GITWEB in die_errorJakub Narebski, Dec 22, 2010
  3. Jonathan NiederDec 23, 2010
  4. Jakub NarebskiDec 25, 2010
  5. diff: funcname and word patterns for perlJonathan Nieder, Dec 26, 2010
  6. Jakub NarebskiDec 26, 2010
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 27, 2010
  8. Jakub NarebskiDec 27, 2010
  9. Jeff KingDec 28, 2010
  10. Jonathan NiederDec 26, 2010
  11. Jakub NarebskiDec 26, 2010
  12. 2/9 gitweb: use eval + die for error (exception) handlingJakub Narebski, Dec 22, 2010
  13. Jonathan NiederDec 23, 2010
  14. Jakub NarebskiDec 25, 2010
  15. 5/9 gitweb: Make die_error just die, and use send_error to create error pagesJakub Narebski, Jan 4, 2011
  16. 3/9 gitweb: Introduce %actions_info, gathering information about actionsJakub Narebski, Dec 22, 2010
  17. 4/9 gitweb: Prepare for splitting gitwebJakub Narebski, Dec 22, 2010
  18. Jonathan NiederDec 24, 2010
  19. Jakub NarebskiDec 26, 2010
  20. 5/9 t/test-lib.sh: Export also GIT_BUILD_DIR in test_externalJakub Narebski, Dec 22, 2010
  21. 6/9 gitweb/lib - Simple output capture by redirecting STDOUT to fileJakub Narebski, Dec 22, 2010
  22. Jonathan NiederDec 24, 2010
  23. Jakub NarebskiDec 26, 2010
  24. 7/9 gitweb/lib - Very simple file based cacheJakub Narebski, Dec 22, 2010
  25. 8/9 gitweb/lib - Cache captured output (using compute_fh)Jakub Narebski, Dec 22, 2010
  26. 9/9 gitweb: Add optional output cachingJakub Narebski, Dec 22, 2010
  27. 10/9 gitweb: Background cache generation and progress indicatorJakub Narebski, Dec 31, 2010
  28. 11/9 [PoC] gitweb/lib - tee, i.e. print and capture during cache entry generationJakub Narebski, Jan 3, 2011
  29. J.H.Jan 3, 2011
  30. Jakub NarebskiJan 4, 2011
  31. Jakub NarebskiJan 4, 2011
  32. 11/9 [PoC] gitweb/lib - HTTP-aware output cachingJakub Narebski, Jan 5, 2011
  33. Jonathan NiederDec 26, 2010
  34. Jonathan NiederDec 26, 2010

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