flatpages middleware throws 404 exception instead of returning response
|Reported by:||hugo||Owned by:||adrian|
|Has patch:||no||Needs documentation:||no|
|Needs tests:||no||Patch needs improvement:||no|
The new middleware for flatpages athrows an exception when a flatpage is not there, instead just returning the 404 response. That leads to weird tracebacks with DEBUG=True, instead of the expected nice formatted 404 page. A fix (against new_admin, but should be identical in trunk):
Index: contrib/flatpages/middleware.py =================================================================== --- contrib/flatpages/middleware.py (revision 1289) +++ contrib/flatpages/middleware.py (working copy) @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ from django.contrib.flatpages.views import flatpage from django.conf.settings import DEBUG +from django.core.extensions import Http404 class FlatpageFallbackMiddleware: def process_response(self, request, response): @@ -9,6 +10,8 @@ return flatpage(request, request.path) # Return the original response if any errors happened. Because this # is a middleware, we can't assume the errors will be caught elsewhere. + except Http404: + return response except: if DEBUG: raise
The redirects middleware seems already to check for this situation. Actually the flatpages middleware does talk in a comment about exactly this problem, but just doesn't implement it ;-)
BTW: maybe a component "contributed apps" would be in order, since flatpages and redirects aren't part of core any more?