I have been frustrated somewhat in debugging problems relating to SOAP 
deserialization/parsing.  It seems that the deserializer ignores parsing 
errors by simply returning AXIS_FAIL or NULL or empty array.  To me this 
hides the underlying problem, be it in the AXIS C/C++ code or in the SOAP 
response itself.

In anycase, I was wondering whether there would be anything wrong with 
throwing exceptions when:

-- the parser is in error status
-- there is no more data to parse  and deserializer asks for more data
-- skipping an end element when it is not an end element

I think that will help in debugging problems and is more reasonable that 
for a client application to wonder why an array is not filled with the 
SOAP response or why a field is set to NULL.

Any comments would be helpful.  I am inclined to go ahead and throw 
exceptions on these conditions, unless there is some sort of logical 
reason why we should not.  At the very least if the parser is in error 
status, no reason to continue.



Nadir K. Amra


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