diff --git a/docs/blueprints.rst b/docs/blueprints.rst index 89d3701e..98a3d630 100644 --- a/docs/blueprints.rst +++ b/docs/blueprints.rst @@ -177,11 +177,11 @@ the `template_folder` parameter to the :class:`Blueprint` constructor:: admin = Blueprint('admin', __name__, template_folder='templates') For static files, the path can be absolute or relative to the blueprint -resource folder. +resource folder. -The template folder is added to the search path of templates but with a lower -priority than the actual application's template folder. That way you can -easily override templates that a blueprint provides in the actual application. +The template folder is added to the search path of templates but with a lower +priority than the actual application's template folder. That way you can +easily override templates that a blueprint provides in the actual application. This also means that if you don't want a blueprint template to be accidentally overridden, make sure that no other blueprint or actual application template has the same relative path. When multiple blueprints provide the same relative @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ want to render the template ``'admin/index.html'`` and you have provided this: :file:`yourapplication/admin/templates/admin/index.html`. The reason for the extra ``admin`` folder is to avoid getting our template overridden by a template named ``index.html`` in the actual application template -folder. +folder. To further reiterate this: if you have a blueprint named ``admin`` and you want to render a template called :file:`index.html` which is specific to this @@ -245,4 +245,22 @@ Here is an example for a "404 Page Not Found" exception:: def page_not_found(e): return render_template('pages/404.html') +Most errorhandlers will simply work as expected; however, there is a caveat +concerning handlers for 404 and 405 exceptions. These errorhandlers are only +invoked from an appropriate ``raise`` statement or a call to ``abort`` in another +of the blueprint's view functions; they are not invoked by, e.g., an invalid URL +access. This is because the blueprint does not "own" a certain URL space, so +the application instance has no way of knowing which blueprint errorhandler it +should run if given an invalid URL. If you would like to execute different +handling strategies for these errors based on URL prefixes, they may be defined +at the application level using the ``request`` proxy object:: + + @app.errorhandler(404) + @app.errorhandler(405) + def _handle_api_error(ex): + if request.path.startswith('/api/'): + return jsonify_error(ex) + else: + return ex + More information on error handling see :ref:`errorpages`.