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+# Error handling for museum-digital
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+Centralized library providing generally usable exceptions across the different applications at museum-digital.
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+The class MDErrorReporter handles the categorizing of errors and helps formulating and sending error mails (all unexpected exceptions being raised during the use of an application at museum-digital should send an error mail).