Getting handle to exception object

[pravinlatti]

Hi,

I am using pages.xml to redirect to a global error.xhtml on the event of an exception.

    <exception>
        <redirect view-id="/error.xhtml">
             <message severity="error">System is experiencing technical difficulty</message>
        </redirect>
    </exception> 

I am associating each exception with a unique reference number and need to display it on the error.xhtml. How can I get a handle to the exception object on the error.xhtml.
I tied a backing bean to that page and tried displaying the below

log.info("org.jboss.seam.caughtException: " + Contexts.getConversationContext().get("org.jboss.seam.caughtException"));
log.info("org.jboss.seam.caughtException (Component.getInstance): " + Component.getInstance("org.jboss.seam.caughtException"));
log.info("org.jboss.seam.handledException: " + Contexts.getConversationContext().get("org.jboss.seam.handledException"));

But all the above components were null.

Also tried the below in pages.xml, this too didn;t work.

   <exception>
        <redirect view-id="/error.xhtml">
            <message severity="warn">#{handledException.message}</message>
        </redirect>
    </exception>

Is this a defect in Seam ? am using 2.2.0 GA.

facelets.development and seam.debug are set to false.
The error.xhtml page is displayed but i need to get a handle to the exception object.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Pravin.

[jonssonth]

An event gets created during exceptions handled by seam. Add an observer:

  @Observer(value = "org.jboss.seam.exceptionHandled")
    public void observe(Exception e) {
}