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diff --git a/docs/whatsnew-1.1.rst b/docs/whatsnew-1.1.rst index ce2f7210a..172a20343 100644 --- a/docs/whatsnew-1.1.rst +++ b/docs/whatsnew-1.1.rst @@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ The major feature additions in Pyramid 1.1 are: - Support for "static" routes. +- Default HTTP exception view and associated ``redirect`` and ``abort`` + convenience functions. + ``request.response`` ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -50,6 +53,25 @@ Static Routes be useful for URL generation via ``route_url`` and ``route_path``. See the section entitled :ref:`static_route_narr` for more information. +Default HTTP Exception View +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- A default exception view for the context :exc:`webob.exc.HTTPException` + (aka :class:`pyramid.httpexceptions.HTTPException`) is now registered by + default. This means that an instance of any exception class imported from + :mod:`pyramid.httpexceptions` (such as ``HTTPFound``) can now be raised + from within view code; when raised, this exception view will render the + exception to a response. + + To allow for configuration of this feature, the :term:`Configurator` now + accepts an additional keyword argument named ``httpexception_view``. By + default, this argument is populated with a default exception view function + that will be used when an HTTP exception is raised. When ``None`` is + passed for this value, an exception view for HTTP exceptions will not be + registered. Passing ``None`` returns the behavior of raising an HTTP + exception to that of Pyramid 1.0 (the exception will propagate to + middleware and to the WSGI server). + Minor Feature Additions ----------------------- @@ -57,6 +79,10 @@ Minor Feature Additions :class:`pyramid.authentication.SessionAuthenticationPolicy`, which uses a session to store credentials. +- A function named :func:`pyramid.httpexceptions.responsecode` is a shortcut + that can be used to create HTTP exception response objects using an HTTP + integer status code. + - Integers and longs passed as ``elements`` to :func:`pyramid.url.resource_url` or :meth:`pyramid.request.Request.resource_url` e.g. ``resource_url(context, @@ -162,7 +188,7 @@ Deprecations and Behavior Differences expected an environ object in BFG 1.0 and before). In a future version, these methods will be removed entirely. -- A custom request factory is now required to return a response object that +- A custom request factory is now required to return a request object that has a ``response`` attribute (or "reified"/lazy property) if they the request is meant to be used in a view that uses a renderer. This ``response`` attribute should be an instance of the class @@ -235,3 +261,10 @@ Documentation Enhancements - Added a section to the "URL Dispatch" narrative chapter regarding the new "static" route feature entitled :ref:`static_route_narr`. + +- Added API docs for :func:`pyramid.httpexceptions.abort` and + :func:`pyramid.httpexceptions.redirect`. + +- Added :ref:`http_exceptions` section to Views narrative chapter including a + description of :func:`pyramid.httpexceptions.abort`` and + :func:`pyramid.httpexceptions.redirect`. |