Mule - accessing the exception stack and logging a

Question

I have a Mule flow that evaluates a payload an depending on the value, may throw an exception using Groovy. My flow looks as follows:

<flow name="test-flow" doc:name="test-flow">
    <vm:inbound-endpoint path="testexception.in" exchange-pattern="request-response" doc:name="VM"/>

    <choice doc:name="Choice">
        <when expression="#[payload == 'Goodbye']">
            <logger message="**************** #[payload] ****************" level="INFO" doc:name="Logger"/>
        </when>

        <otherwise>
            <scripting:component doc:name="Groovy">
                <scripting:script engine="Groovy"><![CDATA[throw new Exception('We have an error')]]></scripting:script>
            </scripting:component>
        </otherwise>
    </choice>

    <catch-exception-strategy doc:name="Catch Exception Strategy">          
        <logger level="INFO" message="*** The exception is: #[exception] ***" doc:name="Logger"/>
        <logger level="INFO" message="There has been an error" doc:name="Logger"/>
    </catch-exception-strategy>
</flow>

The error I see when I send a message like 'Hello' for example is something like the below:

ERROR 2014-05-29 12:18:39,707 [Thread-0] org.mule.exception.CatchMessagingExceptionStrategy: 
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Message               : Failed to invoke ScriptComponent{test-flow.component.1695047076}. Component that caused exception is: ScriptComponent{test-flow.component.1695047076}. Message payload is of type: String
Code                  : MULE_ERROR--2
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Exception stack is:
1. We have an error (java.lang.Exception)
  sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl:-2 (null)
2. java.lang.Exception: We have an error (javax.script.ScriptException)
  org.codehaus.groovy.jsr223.GroovyScriptEngineImpl:323 (http://java.sun.com/j2ee/sdk_1.3/techdocs/api/javax/script/ScriptException.html)
3. Failed to invoke ScriptComponent{test-flow.component.1695047076}. Component that caused exception is: ScriptComponent{test-flow.component.1695047076}. Message payload is of type: String (org.mule.component.ComponentException)
  org.mule.component.AbstractComponent:148 (http://www.mulesoft.org/docs/site/current3/apidocs/org/mule/component/ComponentException.html)
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Root Exception stack trace:
java.lang.Exception: We have an error
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    + 3 more (set debug level logging or '-Dmule.verbose.exceptions=true' for everything)
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Is there a way I can access the first item of the exception stack so that I can evaluate the value and ensure my error has been thrown correctly? In this case I'm looking to access the value 'We have an error'. I thought the solution was in using #[exception] but this gives me something like org.mule.component.ComponentException: Failed to invoke ScriptComponent{test-flow.component.1695047076}. Component that... which isn't what I'm after. Any help or guidance is appreciated, thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The org.mule.component.ComponentException should wrap your custom exception, maybe several level deep.

To help, Mule provides ExceptionUtils to help digging in the exception and finding the one you want.