User Guide

cfrethrow 297
cfrethrow
Description
Rethrows the currently active exception. Preserves the exception’s cfcatch.type and
cfcatch.tagContext variable values.
Category
Exception handling tags, Extensibility tags
Syntax
<cfrethrow>
See also
cferror, cfthrow, cftry
Usage
Use this tag within a cfcatch block. This tag is useful in error handling code, if the error handler
cannot handle an error that it catches. For example, if
cfcatch type = "any" gets a
DATABASE exception, and the code is designed to handle only CFX exceptions, the handler
raises the exceptions again, with details intact, so that a higher-level handler can process the error
information. If you used the
cfthrow tag, the type and details of the original exception would be
lost.
Example
<h3>cfrethrow Example</h3>
<!--- Rethrow a DATABASE exception. --->
<cftry>
<cftry>
<cfquery name = "GetMessages" dataSource = "cfsnippets">
SELECT *
FROM Messages
</cfquery>
<cfcatch type = "DATABASE">
<!---- If database signalled a 50555 error, ignore; otherwise rethrow
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>