Question

Fault/Exception handling from an Axis webservice to a .NET client

Asked by: Azmodan

Hi,
i am building a client for a webservice written in java under Axis.
i have a method that throws a custom exception. this translates in the WSDL like this:

   <wsdl:operation name="GetException">
      <wsdlsoap:operation soapAction="" />
      <wsdl:input name="GetExceptionRequest">
        <wsdlsoap:body use="encoded" namespace="http://ws.hvps.montran.com" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" />
      </wsdl:input>
      <wsdl:output name="GetExceptionResponse">
        <wsdlsoap:body use="encoded" namespace="http://ws.hvps.montran.com" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" />
      </wsdl:output>
      <wsdl:fault name="HVPSException">
        <wsdlsoap:fault use="encoded" name="HVPSException" namespace="http://ws.hvps.montran.com" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" />
      </wsdl:fault>
    </wsdl:operation>


however..the .NET doesn;t create a HVPSException class. all i can catch is a SOAPException. anyone know how to make .NET catch my exception? or at least...find the custom data from my custom exception in the generic SOAPException....cause i can;t find it.

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2006-01-31 at 01:17:22ID21716680
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Answers

 

by: GavinMannionPosted on 2006-01-31 at 01:49:27ID: 15831933

I have never worked with a HVPSException or real Java for that matter but if you post the generic SOAP exception maybe we can find it :)

 

by: AzmodanPosted on 2006-01-31 at 01:54:11ID: 15831958

HVPSException is my custom exception..from Java.
in the .NET client i catch a SOAPException... but i can;t make it to catch anything else.
is there a way to tweak the WDSL->C# generation so that the custom class (HVPSException) is actually seen as an exception. not as a normal class?

 

by: GavinMannionPosted on 2006-01-31 at 02:04:02ID: 15832007

As far as I am aware a web service will always return a SOAP message whether it is an exception or not. If you catch the XML that is returned and view that it should show you your exception in some form or another. Easiest way is to call the web service from a browser and see what xml is returned.

 

by: AzmodanPosted on 2006-01-31 at 02:09:53ID: 15832029

*sigh*
in Java->Java... i can get my real custom exception in the catch block...

i was hoping of a similar way in .NET.


the XML returned does contain the data (my custom exception data) but .NET doesn;t seem to know how to handle it, or it ignores it alltogheter

 

by: GavinMannionPosted on 2006-01-31 at 02:30:54ID: 15832139

*sigh* :)....

ASP.NET has absolutely no way of knowing what you are returning is an exception. You will have to handle it programatically. It thinks the data being returned is what you asked it to return.

You will have to manually 'catch' the exception and then handle it.

That is the beauty and problem with web Services. They can be used to cross languages but you cannot expect them to understand the custom exception that the other language has thrown because it has no idea what it is.

Maybe I am wrong and someone else can give you the answer you are looking for.. I would be interested to see that because it would also help in my life but I cannot logically see how 1 language could interpret the exception thrown by another language.

 

by: AzmodanPosted on 2006-01-31 at 02:37:36ID: 15832166

well... here is the XML returned:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><soapenv:Body><soapenv:Fault><faultcode>soapenv:Server.userException</faultcode><faultstring>com.montran.hvps.ws.business.HVPSException</faultstring><detail><com.montran.hvps.ws.business.HVPSException xsi:type="ns1:HVPSException" xmlns:ns1="http://ws.hvps.montran.com"><cause xsi:nil="true"/><code xsi:type="xsd:int">7</code><message xsi:type="xsd:string">ghinion iliescu</message></com.montran.hvps.ws.business.HVPSException><ns2:hostname xmlns:ns2="http://xml.apache.org/axis/">Mona85</ns2:hostname></detail></soapenv:Fault></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>

it saiz _fault_ all over the place. why can;t .NET deserialize to the custom exception class, like Axis?

 

by: GavinMannionPosted on 2006-01-31 at 02:50:28ID: 15832228

Hmm I am presuming English is not your home language.

From what I see all you need to do is parse the XML into a XML document and then your error is ErrorCode 7 which transalates to 'ghinion iliescu'????

I would guess the class that is causing this is 'com.montran.hvps.ws.business'

If you have access to the web service I would recommend in future to handle the exception in the web service and return a friendly error message back. I don't personally like the idea of exceptions being thrown between applications.

 

by: AzmodanPosted on 2006-01-31 at 02:58:16ID: 15832264

well...yeah. that's the other option. catch all exceptions and pass them as messages. but it works so fine in Java...

 

by: sebulbaPosted on 2006-02-03 at 02:16:06ID: 15861504

if u cannot catch the wanted exception, catch a SOAP Exception not a general Exception.
in the soap exception you have a Detail property with the data from the fault (xml format). u might find there the custom exception codes.

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