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Raise Error (<raise-error/>)

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Generates a Mule error to indicate that a failure occurred.

You can customize the error’s description and type. Use this component to raise:

  • Core runtime errors, such as MULE:SECURITY and MULE:CONNECTIVITY.

  • Custom error types.

You cannot raise an error from another connector or module, such as FILE:FILE_NOT_FOUND or JSON:INVALID_SCHEMA. You cannot use a connector’s existing namespace.

Component XML

This component supports the following XML structure:

<raise-error
  type="MULE:CONNECTIVITY"
  description="Error description message" />

Raise Error (<raise-error/>) attributes are configurable through the UI and XML.

Attribute Name Attribute XML Description

Raise error (default)

doc:name

Editable name for the component to display in the canvas.

N/A

doc:id

Automatically generated identifier for the component.

Type

type

The type of error.

Description

description

The error description.

Examples

The following examples show how to raise a custom error when a user provides an invalid value while making an API request and raise a custom error after comparing a value received in an API response.

Example: Raising an Error After an Invalid User Input

The following example of a driving lessons platform checks that the user is over 16 years old. The flow raises a custom PRECONDITIONS:INCORRECT_AGE error when the user enters an age less than 16 years.

<http:listener-config name="HTTP_Listener_config">
  <http:listener-connection host="0.0.0.0" port="8081" />
</http:listener-config>
<flow name="raise-error-example-flow">
  <http:listener config-ref="HTTP_Listener_config" path="/test"/>
  <choice> (1)
    <when expression="#[message.attributes.queryParams.age &lt; 16]"> (2)
      <raise-error type="PRECONDITIONS:INCORRECT_AGE" description="Minimum age of 16 required to drive" />
    </when>
    <otherwise > (3)
      <logger level="INFO" message="User age above 16 years. Allowed to drive"/>
    </otherwise>
  </choice>
  <error-handler >
    <on-error-continue enableNotifications="true" logException="true" type="PRECONDITIONS:INCORRECT_AGE"> (4)
      <logger level="INFO" message="Minimum age to drive is 16 years old"/>
    </on-error-continue>
    <on-error-continue enableNotifications="true" logException="true"  type="MULE:EXPRESSION"> (5)
      <logger level="INFO" message="The parameter age is missing or invalid"/>
    </on-error-continue>
  </error-handler>
</flow>
1 The Choice router components adds conditional processing to the flow.
2 If the age parameter sent in the request is less than 16 (http://localhost:8081/test?age=15), the Raise Error component raises the error type PRECONDITIONS:INCORRECT_AGE with the description Minimum age of 16 required to drive.
3 If the age parameter is greater than 16 in the request (http://localhost:8081/test?age=17), a Logger component returns the default message User age above 16 years. Allowed to drive.
4 An On-Error Continue component matches the type of the error PRECONDITIONS:INCORRECT_AGE and executes the Logger component inside its scope. The Logger component logs the error message Minimum age of 16 required to drive.
5 If no age parameter is passed in the request (http://localhost:8081/test) the choice component automatically raises a MULE:EXPRESSION error when trying to evaluate the expression #[message.attributes.queryParams.age < 16]. No age parameter was provided in the request, so its value is null.

Then, an On-Error Continue component matches the type of the error MULE:EXPRESSION and executes the Logger component inside its scope. The Logger component returns the message The parameter age is missing or invalid.

Example: Raising an Error After Comparing Values

The following example makes a request to an API (https://unsecurebank.com/balance) and stores the returned account balance in the balance variable, then compares the variable with payload.amount to determine if the operation is possible. The Choice router produces an ACCOUNT:INSUFFICIENT_FUNDS error when a transfer amount surpasses the available balance, preventing the transfer from taking place. The description dynamically provides failure details.

<flow name="raise-error-example-flow">
  <http:request url="https://unsecurebank.com/balance" target="balance"/>
  <choice>
    <when expression="#[payload.amount > vars.balance]">
      <raise-error type="ACCOUNT:INSUFFICIENT_FUNDS" description="#['Cannot transfer $(payload.amount) since only $(vars.balance) are available.']"/>
    </when>
  </choice>
  <http:request url="https://unsecurebank.com/transfer"/>
</flow>

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