From: Ian Weller <ian@ianweller.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:56:35 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: Raise exception on API errors
X-Git-Url: https://projects.mako.cc/source/mw/commitdiff_plain/a3beb96fcd7fb3397867e72f842cc6784c689a82

Raise exception on API errors
---

diff --git a/src/mw/api.py b/src/mw/api.py
index 88dee80..0946782 100644
--- a/src/mw/api.py
+++ b/src/mw/api.py
@@ -44,7 +44,10 @@ class API(object):
             data = gzipper.read()
         else:
             data = response.read()
-        return json.loads(data)
+        the_data = json.loads(data)
+        if 'error' in the_data.keys():
+            raise APIError(the_data['error']['info'])
+        return
 
     def limits(self, low, high):
         if self._high_limits == None:
@@ -59,6 +62,15 @@ class API(object):
             return low
 
 
+class APIError(Exception):
+
+    def __init__(self, info):
+        self.info = info
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self.info
+
+
 def pagename_to_filename(name):
     name = name.replace(' ', '_')
     name = name.replace('/', '!')