From 52c8596c92bbc27b3f102a0945b3fc27197d41bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rebecca Law <rebecca.law@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 17:09:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add application level error handler. This should catch any
 unexcpeted exceptions.

---
 app/__init__.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/app/__init__.py b/app/__init__.py
index 73082d14e..9e275bdfd 100644
--- a/app/__init__.py
+++ b/app/__init__.py
@@ -132,6 +132,12 @@ def init_app(app):
         response.headers.add('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET,PUT,POST,DELETE')
         return response
 
+    @app.errorhandler(Exception)
+    def exception(error):
+        app.logger.exception(error)
+        # error.code is set for our exception types.
+        return jsonify(result='error', message=error.message), error.code or 500
+
     @app.errorhandler(404)
     def page_not_found(e):
         msg = e.description or "Not found"