[dancer-users] Using Dancer::Exception -- searching for best patterns

[Andrew Beverley]

On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 16:32 -0800, Hermann Calabria wrote:
> Ideally I’d like to Raise Friendly => ‘Some Friendly Error Message’ to 
> report user-friendly error messages without logging, and everything 
> else (whether raised by Dancer, die(), or by something else such as a 
> database error) should just report “Internal Server Error” and log it.
> 
> Furthermore, I’d like to be able to use Raise Friendly => ‘Some 
> Friendly Error Message’ anywhere within the route code or within any 
> package used by the route (example below uses Some::Package).

I wrote (with a little help) Dancer2::Plugin::LogReport for a
comprehensive and easy way to do this and a bunch of other stuff, whilst
keeping code to a minimum. I'm just about to post an article to the
mailing list about it.

I realise you're using Dancer1, but you might like to look at the
techniques involved, or even consider porting it to Dancer1 if it would
be of benefit to you.

> 1. I don’t want to repeat the same catch {} section within every 
> single route (following principles of D.R.Y.),

That's exactly the idea behind the module - I got very bored writing
code similar to that in your examples.

Andy