View stacktrace error on 500 as json on django
Using django rest framework, I always make API calls through tests. But sometimes they fail and I am currently logging the HTML with a stacktrace to a file and then viewing it with a browser, but this is very annoying.
Is there a way to make it output json or anything other than html?
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DRF only handles the following: (source: DRF Docs )
- APIException subclasses thrown by REST.
- Django Exception Http404.
- Django PermissionDenied exception.
If you know what kind of view this is going on, one way to make it render API responses is to try / throw and raise it as an API exception instead of what you actually get.
Alternatively, you can also provide your own exception handler (see https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/blob/master/rest_framework/views.py#L52 for the original) that handles more than standard exception types by default, using the EXCEPTION_HANDLER parameter for REST_FRAMEWORK
REST_FRAMEWORK = {
'EXCEPTION_HANDLER': 'my_project.my_app.utils.custom_exception_handler'
}
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