sanic/docs/sanic/exceptions.md
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# Exceptions
Exceptions can be thrown from within request handlers and will automatically be
handled by Sanic. Exceptions take a message as their first argument, and can
also take a status code to be passed back in the HTTP response.
## Throwing an exception
To throw an exception, simply `raise` the relevant exception from the
`sanic.exceptions` module.
```python
from sanic.exceptions import ServerError
@app.route('/killme')
def i_am_ready_to_die(request):
raise ServerError("Something bad happened", status_code=500)
```
You can also use the `abort` function with the appropriate status code:
```python
from sanic.exceptions import abort
from sanic.response import text
@app.route('/youshallnotpass')
def no_no(request):
abort(401)
# this won't happen
text("OK")
```
## Handling exceptions
To override Sanic's default handling of an exception, the `@app.exception`
decorator is used. The decorator expects a list of exceptions to handle as
arguments. You can pass `SanicException` to catch them all! The decorated
exception handler function must take a `Request` and `Exception` object as
arguments.
```python
from sanic.response import text
from sanic.exceptions import NotFound
@app.exception(NotFound)
def ignore_404s(request, exception):
return text("Yep, I totally found the page: {}".format(request.url))
```
## Useful exceptions
Some of the most useful exceptions are presented below:
- `NotFound`: called when a suitable route for the request isn't found.
- `ServerError`: called when something goes wrong inside the server. This
usually occurs if there is an exception raised in user code.
See the `sanic.exceptions` module for the full list of exceptions to throw.