RequestExceptionHandler
Rails is not capable of calling your exception handlers when an error occurs during the parsing of request parameters (e.g. in case of invalid JSON body).
This will hopefully change someday, but until then I have created this delicate monkey-patch for the request parameter parser to allow more flexibility when an invalid request body is received.
Tested on 4.x and 3.x but it should still work on Rails 2.3 and 2.2.3 as well.
Install
gem 'request_exception_handler'
~~or as a plain-old (obsolete) rails plugin~~ :
script/plugin install git://github.com/kares/request_exception_handler.git
Example
The code hooks into parameter parsing and allows a request to be constructed even if the parsing of the submitted raw content fails (JSON/XML backend raises a parse error). A before filter is installed that checks for a request exception and re-raises, it thus it seems to Rails that the exception comes from the application code and is processed as all other “business” exceptions.
One might skip this “request-exception” filter (e.g. per action - the usual way) and install another to handle such cases (it’s good to make sure the filter gets at the beginning of the chain) :
“by class MyController < ApplicationController
skip_before_filter :check_request_exception # filter the plugin installed
# custom before filter use request_exception to detect occured errors prepend_before_filter :return_409_on_json_errors
private def return_409_on_json_errors if e = request_exception && e.is_a?(ActiveSupport::JSON::ParseError) head 409 else head 500 end end
end
“
Another option of how to modify the returned 500 status is to use exception handlers the same way you’re (hopefully) using them for your own exceptions :
“by class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
rescue_from ‘REXML::ParseException’ do |exception| render :text => exception.to_s, :status => 422 end
end
“
If you’re not using REXML as a parsing backend the exception might vary, e.g. for Nokogiri the rescue block would look something like :
“by rescue_from ‘Nokogiri::XML::SyntaxError’ do |exception| render :text => exception.to_s, :status => 422 end
“
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2014 Karol Bucek. See LICENSE (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) for details.