[WICKET-4892] Provide helpful exception message in RequestCycle#urlFor()

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 6.4.0
• Component/s: wicket
• Labels: exception exception-handling patch
• Assignee: Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov
• Reporter: Peter Parson
• Created: 26/Nov/12 15:09
• Updated: 29/Nov/12 12:39
• Resolved: 29/Nov/12 12:39

Description

When something goes wrong while trying to get the URL for pageClass/pageParameters using RequestCycle, the exception message and its stacktrace is not very helpful in tracking down the component actually causing the problem. (See attached stacktrace that I while rendering a BookmarkablePageLink with a null parameter.)

I suggest to catch any exceptions thrown by urlFor(IRequestHandler) and throwing a WicketRuntimeException having pageClass and pageparamters in its message. (See attached patch)