From aa644b43407798fd9dc54ae8f41584bf2b6138eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ilya Sukhanov <ilya@sukhanov.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 21:15:33 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Allow returning http errors with exceptions

before:
    def my_response_method(self):
        ...
        if error:
            return template, {'status'=400}

after:
    def my_response_method(self):
        ...
        if error:
            raise MyResponseError("bad thing happened")
where MyResponseError inherits from HTTPException
---
 moto/core/responses.py | 6 +++++-
 requirements.txt       | 1 +
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/moto/core/responses.py b/moto/core/responses.py
index ab1188e0..88e4ea6d 100644
--- a/moto/core/responses.py
+++ b/moto/core/responses.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import json
 
 from urlparse import parse_qs, urlparse
 
+from werkzeug.exceptions import HTTPException
 from moto.core.utils import camelcase_to_underscores, method_names_from_class
 
 
@@ -49,7 +50,10 @@ class BaseResponse(object):
         method_names = method_names_from_class(self.__class__)
         if action in method_names:
             method = getattr(self, action)
-            response = method()
+            try:
+                response = method()
+            except HTTPException as http_error:
+                response = http_error.description, dict(status=http_error.code)
             if isinstance(response, basestring):
                 return 200, headers, response
             else:
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c6ab212d..4ea7dca3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ requests
 sure<1.2.4
 xmltodict
 dicttoxml
+werkzeug