From d9019ed529b17018193e740983a850b2e48e2b13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Osborn <kosborn2@ucsc.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 17:22:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] added logger to output exception information when flask
 debugger is off

---
 ga4gh/frontend.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ga4gh/frontend.py b/ga4gh/frontend.py
index b8a0422ef..c91f47b83 100644
--- a/ga4gh/frontend.py
+++ b/ga4gh/frontend.py
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
 import ga4gh.protocol as protocol
 import ga4gh.exceptions as exceptions
 import ga4gh.datarepo as datarepo
+import logging
+from logging import StreamHandler
 
 
 MIMETYPE = "application/json"
@@ -188,6 +190,9 @@ def configure(configFile=None, baseConfig="ProductionConfig",
     TODO Document this critical function! What does it do? What does
     it assume?
     """
+    file_handler = StreamHandler()
+    file_handler.setLevel(logging.WARNING)
+    app.logger.addHandler(file_handler)
     configStr = 'ga4gh.serverconfig:{0}'.format(baseConfig)
     app.config.from_object(configStr)
     if os.environ.get('GA4GH_CONFIGURATION') is not None:
@@ -340,7 +345,7 @@ def handleException(exception):
     Handles an exception that occurs somewhere in the process of handling
     a request.
     """
-    if app.config['DEBUG']:
+    with app.test_request_context():
         app.log_exception(exception)
     serverException = exception
     if not isinstance(exception, exceptions.BaseServerException):