[Zope] Cannot determine exception cause

[Mark Gibson]

Doug Chamberlin wrote:

> Please help a fledgling Zope user who is trying to build his first Zope 
> site!
> 
> I have a database in which there is a table of "activity groups" which 
> can be obtained from the selectActivityGroups ZSQL. This works fine. The 
> document which produces this page is ListGroups.
> 
>  From ListGroups I can click the Edit button to get toe the EditAGroup 
> page. This also works fine and the selected record's values are 
> transferred correctly. When I click the Save button, the UpdateAGroup 
> document is accessed which, in turn, accesses the UpdateGroup ZSQL. When 
> this is done an error occurs which causes the exception to be raised in 
> UpdateAGroup.
> 
> 1. How can I detect further what the cause of the exception is?
> 2. Why does the error message come out "Error while saving group 
> _['dbid']" instead of translating the dbid value?
> 



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You may want to display information about the exception when you catch 
it.  That may provide you with a better idea of what's causing the 
exception.  Include the following in your exception code:

Type: <dtml-var error_type><br />
Value: <dtml-var error_value><br />

Mark


> <dtml-except>
>   Error while saving group _['dbid']. Canges were <b>not</b> saved.
>   <form action="." method=post>
>     <!-- TODO need to add all hidden fields here again...>
>     <input type="submit" name="EditAGroup:method" value="Try Again">
>     <input type="submit" name="ListGroups:method" value="Return to List">
>     <input type=hidden name="dbid" value="<dtml-var dbid>">
>     <input type=hidden name="shortname" value="<dtml-var newshortname>">
>     <input type=hidden name="longname" value="<dtml-var newlongname>">
>     <input type=hidden name="description" value="<dtml-var 
> newdescription>">
>   </form>
> </dtml-try>
> <dtml-var standard_html_footer>
> 
> ZSQL UpdateGroup (has params of dbid, NewShortName, NewLongName, 
> NewDescription):
> update GroupsOfActivities
> set
>   ShortName=<dtml-sqlvar NewShortName type=string>,
>   LongName=<dtml-sqlvar NewLongName type=string>,
>   Description=<dtml-sqlvar NewDescription type=string>
> where
>   DBID=<dtml-sqlvar dbid type=string>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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