Question

I have the following on my base controller class which my other controllers inherit from:

[HandleError(ExceptionType = typeof(NotFoundException), View = "NotFound")]
[HandleError(ExceptionType = typeof(UnauthorisedException), View = "Unauthorised")]

I would like to be able to add the exception message into the view.
So for example when I throw an exception:

throw new NotFoundException("This record was not found");

I could somehow grab this message and insert it into the NotFound view.

Answer 1

The exception object is send in the HandleErrorInfo that is the model of the error page. You can display the exception message with:

<%: Model.Exception.Message %>

If you want the complete information with the stack trace and everything, you can just use the ToString method (which is implicitly called on non-string objects that you output):

<%: Model.Exception %>