Ok, so this has been bugging me for the past few hours so I thought I'd share a quick hack. I've got a prototype I'm working on for a client that has a bit of Ajax in it. My Application.cfc code comes from a snippet I have in ColdFusion Builder and has the following onError:
<cffunction name="onError" returnType="void" output="false"> <cfargument name="exception" required="true"> <cfargument name="eventname" type="string" required="true"> <cfdump var="#arguments#"><cfabort> </cffunction>Short and simple. An ugly dump is fine for testing. However, when an Ajax called was made, Firebug displayed a butt load of HTML (the dump) and it was difficult to find the exact message. I just changed it to the following code and it was incredibly helpful. Still not something I'd recommend on production, but I may change my snippet to support this:
<cffunction name="onError" returnType="void" output="false"> <cfargument name="exception" required="true"> <cfargument name="eventname" type="string" required="true"> <cfif structKeyExists(url, "method")> <cfoutput> message=#arguments.exception.message# detail=#arguments.exception.detail# </cfoutput> <cfabort> <cfelse> <cfdump var="#arguments#"><cfabort> </cfif> </cffunction>Basically, if method exists in the URL, assume it's Ajax. (I could also check the headers, as described here.)