Handling exceptions

Use the cftry and cfcatch tags to catch CORBA object method exceptions thrown by the remote server, as follows:

  1. Specify type="coldfusion.runtime.corba.CorbaUserException" in the cfcatch tag to catch CORBA exceptions.
  2. Use the cfcatch.getContents method to get the contents of the exception object.

The cfcatch.getContents method returns a ColdFusion structure containing the data specified by the IDL for the exception.

The following code example shows the IDL for a CORBA object that raises an exception defined by the PrimitiveException exception type definition, and the CFML that catches the exception and displays the contents of the object.

IDL

interface myInterface
{
	exception PrimitiveException
	{
		long l; 
		string s; 
		float f;
	};
	void testPrimitiveException() raises (PrimitiveException); 
}

CFML

<cftry> 
	<cfset ret0 = handle.testPrimitiveException()>
	<cfcatch type=coldfusion.runtime.corba.CorbaUserException>
		<cfset exceptStruct= cfcatch.getContents()>
		<cfdump var ="#exceptStruct#"> 
	</cfcatch>
</cftry>