web_error 0.6.8

Web based error utils

Web Errors v0.6.8

web_error is a set of exceptions and handlers for use in starlette/fastapi applications to support easy error management and responses

Each exception easily marshals to JSON based on the RFC9457 spec for use in api errors.

Migrating to 0.6 (RFC9457 support)

Check the discussion here for details on how to update usage to maintain legacy functionality or move over to problem details support.

Errors

The base web_error.error.HttpException accepts a title, details, status (default 500) and optional **kwargs. An additional code can be passed in, which will be used as the type, if not provided the type is derived from the class name.

And will return a JSON response with exc.status as the status code and response body:

{
    "type": "an-exception",
    "title": "title",
    "details": "details",
    "status": 500,
    "extra-key": "extra-value",
    ...
}

Derived types are generated using the class name after dropping ...Error from the end, and converting to kebab-case. i.e. PascalCaseError will derive the type pascal-case. If the class name doesn't suit your purposes, an optional code attribute can be set with the desired value of there response type field.

Some convenience Exceptions are provided with predefined status attributes. To create custom errors subclasss these and define the title attribute.

• web_error.error.ServerException provides status 500 errors
• web_error.error.BadRequestException provides status 400 errors
• web_error.error.UnauthorisedException provides status 401 errors
• web_error.error.NotFoundException provides status 404 errors

Custom Errors

Subclassing the convenience classes provide a simple way to consistently raise the same error with details/extras changing based on the raised context.

from web_error.error import NotFoundException


class UserNotFoundError(NotFoundException):
    title = "User not found."

raise UserNotFoundError(details="details")

{
    "type": "user-not-found",
    "title": "User not found",
    "details": "details",
    "status": 404,
}

Whereas a defined code will be used in the output.

class UserNotFoundError(NotFoundException):
    title = "User not found."
    code = "cant-find-user"

raise UserNotFoundError(details="details")

{
    "type": "cant-find-user",
    "title": "User not found",
    "details": "details",
    "status": 404,
}

If additional kwargs are provided when the error is raised, they will be included in the output (ensure the provided values are json seriablizable.

raise UserNotFoundError(details="details", user_id="1234", metadata={"hello": "world"})

{
    ...
    "details": "details",
    "user_id": "1234",
    "metadata": {"hello": "world"},
}

Starlette

    import starlette.applications
    import web_error.handler.starlette

    app = starlette.applications.Starlette()

    web_error.handler.starlette.add_exception_handler(app)

A custom logger can be provided to add_exception_handler(app, logger=...).

If you require cors headers, you can pass a web_error.cors.CorsConfiguration instance to add_exception_handler(cors=...).

add_exception_handler(
    app,
    cors=CorsConfiguration(
        allow_origins=["*"],
        allow_methods=["*"],
        allow_headers=["*"],
        allow_credentials=True,
    )
)

To handle unexpected errors provide unhandled_wrappers, a dict mapping http status code to HttpCodeException, the system key default is also accepted as the root wrapper for all unhandled exceptions.

If you wish to hide debug messaging from external users, strip_debug=True will log the debug message and remove it from the response.

    from web_error.error import HttpCodeException

    class NotFoundError(HttpCodeException):
        status = 404
        message = "Endpoint not found."

    web_error.handler.starlette.add_exception_handler(
        app,
        unhandled_wrappers={
            "404": NotFoundError,
        },
    )

FastAPI

The FastAPI handler is identical to the starlette handler with the additional handling of RequestValidationError.

    import fastapi
    import web_error.handler.fastapi


    app = fastapi.FastAPI()
    web_error.handler.fastapi.add_exception_handler(app)