Error

Required: yes Default: Make shows a generic message

The error directive specifies the error type and the error message to show the user.

You can specify different error messages based on different status codes. The error object has the following attributes:

Property	Type	Description
message	IML string	An expression that parses an error message from the response body.
type	IML string	An expression that specifies the error type.
<status code>	Error specification	An object that customizes the error message and type based on the status code.

See error handling for more details.

Properties

message

Required: yes

The error.message directive specifies the message that the error will contain. It can be a statically specified string, or it can point to a message in a response body or header.

type

Required: no Default: RuntimeError

The error.type directive specifies a type of error message. Different error types are handled differently by Make. The default error type is RuntimeError. See error handling for more details.

<status-code>

Required: no

You can specify custom errors for different status codes by specifying the status code as the key in the error directive object and using the same error specification as a value.