cfrethrow

Description

Rethrows the currently active exception. Preserves the exception's cfcatch.type and cfcatch.tagContext information.

Category

Exception handling tags

Syntax

<cfrethrow> 

See also

cferror, cfthrow, cftry cfcatch

Usage

Use the cfrethrow tag within a cfcatch block. This tag is useful in error handling code when the error handler is not designed to handle an error that it catches. For example, if cfcatch type = "any" gets a DATABASE exception and the code is designed only to handle CFX exceptions, the handler should re-raise the original exception with details intact, so that a higher-level handler can process the error information. If you used cfthrow in this case, you would lose the type and relevant details of the original exception.

Example

<!--- This example shows the use of cfrethrow --->
<html>
<head>
<title>cfrethrow Example</title>
</head>

<BASEFONT face = "Arial, Helvetica" size = 2>
<body bgcolor = "#FFFFD5">

<H3>cfrethrow Example</H3>

<!--- Rethrow a DATABASE exception. --->

<cftry>
  <cftry>
    <cfquery name = "GetMessages" dataSource = "cfsnippets">
      SELECT  *
      FROM   Messages
    </cfquery>
  <cfcatch type = "DATABASE">
    <!----------------------------------------------------------- 
    If the database signalled a 50555 error, we can ignore it, 
    otherwise rethrow the exception. 
    ------------------------------------------------------------->
    <cfif cfcatch.sqlstate neq 50555>
      <cfrethrow>
    </cfif>
  </cfcatch>
  </cftry>
  
<cfcatch>
  <h3>Sorry, this request can't be completed</h3>
  <h4>Catch variables</h4>
  <cfoutput>
    <cfloop collection = #cfcatch# item = "c">
      <br><cfif IsSimpleValue(cfcatch[c])>#c# = #cfcatch[c]#</cfif>
    </cfloop>
  </cfoutput>
</cfcatch>
</cftry>
  
</body>
</html>