[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBPORTAL-1466) customizable error page in the portlet that threw the exception

[Varsha Paranjape (JIRA)]

    [ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPORTAL-1466?page=comments#action_12364129 ] 
            
Varsha Paranjape commented on JBPORTAL-1466:
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The usecase that we currently have is -

The WAP Customer is creating a Customer Portal Application, this is a web application built on the Portal that is composed out of Themes, Layouts, Portal Metadata, a collection of Product Portlets, and a set of instances of WAP Customizable Portlets that represent features that are general and reusable across product offerings.

The WAP Customer creates instances of WAP Customizable Portlets in their Customer Portal Application.

The WAP Customizable Portlet is a JSF Bridge based Portlet because we will also offer stand alone non-portal implementations of this customizable component.

The WAP Customer wants to customize the styles and branding to match that of their Customer Portal Application.

The WAP Customer would like to be able to customize the error display that occurs for an unhandled exception in the WAP Customizable Portlet.

Our proposal is that there be an option to allow them to include in their Portal application a web.xml <error-page> declaration for a .jsp that will be used in place of the current portlet view in the case of an error.

This makes it easy for us to support both the portlet and non-portlet versions of this customization, eases porting, and doesn't create new and unfamiliar configuration for users.


> customizable error page in the portlet that threw the exception
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>
>                 Key: JBPORTAL-1466
>                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBPORTAL-1466
>             Project: JBoss Portal
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>          Components: Portal Core
>    Affects Versions: 2.6.CR2
>            Reporter: William DeCoste
>         Assigned To: Julien Viet
>
> Feature request from customer.
> Feature:
> For error handing, the portlet should be able to render a customizable error page in the portlet that threw the exception. This feature would be something similar to the error-page tag in web.xml.
> Currently JBoss Portal provides a way to either hide the portlet that has errors or show it with the stack trace or show it with only the error message. But there is no way where the developers could customize the contents that appear in the window for the portlet that throws an exception.
>  We had opened case #00015844 about not being able to use web.xml error-page tag with JBoss portal applications. The provided solution about catching the specific exception in the render method does not work as it is not customizable & too tied up with the portlet class code. And as you might be aware about the WAP function - someone using the WAP application components will not be able to customize it according to their requirements.
>  
> We know that the portlet standard doesn't specify what to do, and we're just trying to have it behave as much like a regular web application in lieu of something being in the standard.

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