Elmah add message to error logged through call to Raise(e)

c# .net elmah error-logging
fearofawhackplanet picture fearofawhackplanet · Sep 28, 2010 · Viewed 7k times · Source

I'm a bit confused at how to add a message to an error logged programatically with ELMAH.

eg:

public ActionResult DoSomething(int id)
{
    try { ... }

    catch (Exception e)
    {
        // I want to include the 'id' param value here, and maybe some
        // other stuff, but how?
        ErrorSignal.FromCurrentContext().Raise(e);
    }
}

It seems all Elmah can do is log the raw exception, how can I also log my own debug info?

Answer

Jeff Ogata picture Jeff Ogata · Sep 28, 2010

You can throw a new Exception setting the original as the inner exception and ELMAH will log the messages for both:

catch(Exception e)
{
    Exception ex = new Exception("ID = 1", e);
    ErrorSignal.FromCurrentContext().Raise(ex);
}

will show

System.Exception: ID = 1 ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

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