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Re: [Jersey] Viewable in ExceptionMapper

From: Charles Brooking <public+jersey_at_charlie.brooking.id.au>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:00:31 +1000 (EST)

Hi all

> This should be possible to fix by checking is there is a matched
> resource available or not. In fact it seems useful to extend Viewable
> so that a developer can specify a class for which resolving is
> performed. By default this would be the matching class if any, but it
> might make sense for you for it to be associated with the exception
> mapper? that way you can place your views within a certain namespace.
>
> Could you log an issue? and i will work in fixing it.

I've submitted a patch

  https://jersey.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=226

that avoids the IndexOutOfBoundsException, and allows for my particular
use case (displaying essentially static JSP error pages) to work for the
time being. No doubt there is more that could be done to improve support
for rendering templates in response to exceptions.

Later
Charlie