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Overview

Any uncaught exception in AngularJS expressions is delegated to this service. The default implementation simply delegates to $log.error which logs it into the browser console.

In unit tests, if angular-mocks.js is loaded, this service is overridden by mock $exceptionHandler which aids in testing.

Example:

The example below will overwrite the default $exceptionHandler in order to (a) log uncaught errors to the backend for later inspection by the developers and (b) to use $log.warn() instead of $log.error().

angular.
  module('exceptionOverwrite', []).
  factory('$exceptionHandler', ['$log', 'logErrorsToBackend', function($log, logErrorsToBackend) {
    return function myExceptionHandler(exception, cause) {
      logErrorsToBackend(exception, cause);
      $log.warn(exception, cause);
    };
  }]);

Note, that code executed in event-listeners (even those registered using jqLite's on/bind methods) does not delegate exceptions to the $exceptionHandler (unless executed during a digest).

If you wish, you can manually delegate exceptions, e.g. try { ... } catch(e) { $exceptionHandler(e); }