Merge pull request #180 from ral-facilities/feature/fix-exception-han…

…dling-#147

Fix Exception Handling for Non-Debug Mode

src/main.py

@@ -35,18 +35,21 @@
     security=[{"session_id": []}],
 )
 
-app = Flask(__name__)
-cors = CORS(app)
-app.url_map.strict_slashes = False
-api = Api(app)
-
 
-def handle_error(e):
-    return str(e), e.status_code
+class CustomErrorHandledApi(Api):
+    """
+    This class overrides `handle_error` function from the API class from `flask_restful`
+    to correctly return response codes and exception messages from uncaught exceptions
+    """
 
+    def handle_error(self, e):
+        return str(e), e.status_code
 
-app.register_error_handler(ApiError, handle_error)
 
+app = Flask(__name__)
+cors = CORS(app)
+app.url_map.strict_slashes = False
+api = CustomErrorHandledApi(app)
 
 swaggerui_blueprint = get_swaggerui_blueprint(
     "", "/openapi.json", config={"app_name": "DataGateway API OpenAPI Spec"},