<cfthrow>

The cfthrow tag raises a developer-specified exception that can be caught with <cfcatch> tag having any of the following type specifications

This tag cannot have a body.

This tag is also supported within <cfscript>


		<cfthrow
    type=string
    message=any
    detail=string
    errorcode=string
    extendedinfo=string
    object=any
    contextlevel=numeric
>

Attribute	Description
type _{string, optional}	A custom type or the predefined type Application. Do not enter any other predefined types because they are not generated by CFML applications. If you specify the exception type Application, you need not specify a type for cfcatch, because the Application type is the default cfcatch type
message _{any, optional}	A message that describes the exceptional event.
detail _{string, optional}	A detailed description of the event. The CFML server appends the position of the error to this description; the server uses this parameter if an error is not caught by your code.
errorcode _{string, optional}	A custom error code that you supply.
extendedinfo _{string, optional}	extended information about the exception.
object _{any, optional}	A native Java exception Object, if this attribute is defined, all other attributes are ignored
contextlevel _{numeric, optional}	entry context level * hidden *

<cftry>
    <cfthrow message="test exception">
    <cfcatch name="test" type="any">
        <cfdump var="#cfcatch#">
    </cfcatch>
</cftry>