Issue - 170 - How to handle faultcode, faultstring, and faultactor

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Issue - 170 - How to handle faultcode, faultstring, and faultactor

Status: received
Date added: 18 Oct 2004
Categories: Syntax & semantics
Date submitted: 15 October 2004
Submitter: Yuzo Fujishima
Champion: Yuzo Fujishima <fujishima@bc.jp.nec.com>
Document: WSBPEL Working Draft, September 8, 2004
Description: In the current specification, there is no way to set or get faultcode, faultstring, and faultactor in sending, receiving, throwing, or catching a fault.

Even though those three elements don't appear in a WSDL definition, they (especially the faultcode) convey information that is too important just to ignore.
Submitter's proposal:

I think we have to do either of the following:

1. Do not support faultcode, faultstring, and faultactor. Add a note to the specification telling that those are not supported. Also add the rationale and possibly recommended values of them to use by implementation in sending fault.
2. Support faultcode, faultstring, and faultactor.

One way to support faultcode, faultstring and faultactor is as follows:

Add optional faultCodeVariable, faultStringVariable, faultActorVariable attributes to <catch>, <throw>, and <reply>. For a <catch>, the attributes specify the names of the variables to set the values to, while for the latter two, the variables to get the values from.

The default values (not the variable names) are "soap:Server", "", "" for faultcode, faultstring, faultactor, respectively.
Changes: 18 Oct 2004 - new issue

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