Question

I am sending myself WebApp error reports from Pylons when users hit critical errors and I would love to be able to get the full output of session[] in the reports and customize it to my liking, but I’ve got no idea how to do that, or where the report is actually created / put together.

Anyone know how I can accomplish that?

Answer 1

I thank Michael for answering me, without really giving me anything to build on. That meant I had to figure it out myself, and that’s always a good thing 🙂

What I did was, I looked at /config/middleware.py in my Pylons project and found this line:

app = ErrorHandler(app, global_conf, **config['pylons.errorware'])

I made my own ErrorHandler def and my own ErrorMiddleware class at the top of the middleware.py file:

class ClaraErrorMiddleware(ErrorMiddleware):
    def exception_handler(self, exc_info, environ):
        # do what ever you want with the exc_info or environ vars
        super(ClaraErrorMiddleware, self).exception_handler(exc_info, environ) # call parent
    pass

def ClaraErrorHandler(app, global_conf, **errorware):
    if asbool(global_conf.get('debug')):
        return ErrorHandler(app, global_conf, **errorware)
    else:
        return ClaraErrorMiddleware(app, global_conf, **errorware)

So now, I can throw in some extra variables I want to be sent with my error emails. Simple enough …