I'm having a bit of a problem when browsing to a non-existent resource. I get a response code of 200 instead of 404.
I'm using the MethodDispatcher and I have a class that overloads the __getattr__ method to instantiate a resource if a child exists or to return AttributeError if one doesn't. My class is always returning the AttributeError correctly, but the data I actually get is always from the last good resource.
Here's a simplified (except for __getattr__) version of my class:
class BaseResource(object):
exposed = True
def __init__(self, name):
self.children = [] # Pretend this has child resources
def __getattr__(self, name):
if name in self._children:
uuid, application, obj_type, server = self._children[name]
try:
resource = getattr(app[application], obj_type)
except AttributeError as e:
raise cherrypy.HTTPError(500, e)
return resource(uuid)
else:
raise AttributeError('Child with name \'{}\' could not be found.'.format(name))
def GET(self):
cherrypy.log.error('*** {} not found, raising AttributeError'.format(name))
return 'GET request for {}'.format(self._name)
So fetching I get the following when I browse to the following resources:
http://localhost:8000/users - This resource exists, so it returns it correctly.
http://localhost:8000/users/fake - This returns the "users" resource giving an HTTP 200.
http://localhost:8000/users/fake/reallyfake - This returns the "users" resource again.
So my question is, where can I start looking to find out why my code isn't returning a 404 for a non-existent resource. I'm sure I've done something wrong, but I'm not sure what.
Whatever I did wrong I've undone and I'm now getting a 404 returned correctly. I'm sorry I can't give any detail on what the issue was, but I'm honestly not sure what I did.
