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I'm making an ASP.NET MVC call to a method via AJAX and the error throws an exception. I'd like the message of the exception to be passed back to the client, and I'd prefer not to have to catch the exception. Something like this:
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult AddUser(User user) {
if (UserIsValid(user)) {
return Json(new { resultText = "Success!" });
}
throw new Exception("The user was invalid. Please fill out the entire form.");
}
I'm seeing in my firebug response an HTML page
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>"The user was invalid. Please fill out the entire form."</title>
.....
I'd like to not be forced to use a try catch block to do this. Is there a way to automatically get the jQuery $(document).ajaxError(function () {} to read in this exception message? Is this bad practice? Can I override the controller OnException? Or do I have to try/catch and return JSON?
Something like this would be nice:
$(document).ajaxError(function (data) {
alert(data.title);
});
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You can do this with a custom filter:
$(document).ajaxError(function(event, jqxhr) {
console.log(jqxhr.responseText);
});
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[HttpPost]
[CustomHandleErrorAttribute]
public JsonResult Foo(bool isTrue)
{
if (isTrue)
{
return Json(new { Foo = "Bar" });
}
throw new HttpException(404, "Oh noes...");
}
public class CustomHandleErrorAttribute : HandleErrorAttribute
{
public override void OnException(ExceptionContext filterContext)
{
var exception = filterContext.Exception;
var statusCode = new HttpException(null, exception).GetHttpCode();
filterContext.Result = new JsonResult
{
JsonRequestBehavior = JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet, //Not necessary for this example
Data = new
{
error = true,
message = filterContext.Exception.Message
}
};
filterContext.ExceptionHandled = true;
filterContext.HttpContext.Response.Clear();
filterContext.HttpContext.Response.StatusCode = statusCode;
filterContext.HttpContext.Response.TrySkipIisCustomErrors = true;
}
}
Somewhat inspired by this blogpost: http://www.prideparrot.com/blog/archive/2012/5/exception_handling_in_asp_net_mvc
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