o Improved error handling when postgres fails.

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/routes/index.js b/routes/index.js
index 82bce70..30f0f9b 100644
--- a/routes/index.js
+++ b/routes/index.js
@@ -64,8 +64,24 @@ function after(res, callback) {
   return function() {
     var err = arguments[0];
     if(err) {
-      res.writeHead(500, {'Content-Type' : 'text/plain'});
-      return res.end('Error! ' + util.inspect(err))
+      // Ideally we would be able to differenciate between
+      // client and server errors, but I'm lazy. It might be
+      // possible to map some values from
+      // http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/errcodes-appendix.html
+      // - trygvis
+      var body = JSON.stringify({ collection: {
+        error: {
+          title: 'Unable to insert employee.',
+          message: err.message,
+          code: err.code
+        }
+      }});
+      var headers = {
+        'Content-Type' : 'application/vnd.collection+json',
+        'Content-Length' : body.length
+      }
+      res.writeHead(400, headers);
+      return res.end(body);
     }
     callback.apply(this, _.rest(arguments));
   }