At 11:24 AM 11/13/2002 -0800, you wrote: I debated on whether or not to adopt this methodology (structure-based return variables), but decided to go with the cftry/catch.
Might have to rethink this now. Thanks for the insight. >On Wednesday, Nov 13, 2002, at 10:57 US/Pacific, Alexander Sherwood >wrote: > > When using CFTHROW with Web Services, is there a way to trim down the > > error > > message returned? > > > > When called as a component, the cfcatch.detail and cfcatch.message are > > fine, but when called as a web service, they are loaded with AXIS fault > > codes, etc. > > > > How has anyone else handled this? > >Ugly, isn't it? My team decided to not throw exceptions out of the Web >Service and instead return a struct with the first element indicating >success / failure and the second element being either the result (for >success) or the CF exception details (for failure). That means that all >our Web Service methods look like: > > <cffunction name="foo" ...> > ...args... > <cfset returnValue = structNew()/> > <cfset returnValue.success = true/> > <cftry> > ... > do a bunch of stuff > ... > <cfset returnValue.result = whatever/> > <cfcatch type="any"> > <cfset returnValue.success = false/> > <cfset returnValue.result = structNew()/> > <cfset returnValue.result.message = cfcatch.message/> > <!--- etc ---> > </cfcatch> > </cftry> > <cfreturn returnValue/> > </cffunction> > >Sean A Corfield -- Director, Architecture >Web Technology Group -- Macromedia, Inc. >tel: (415) 252-2287 -- cell: (415) 717-8473 >aim: seancorfield -- http://www.macromedia.com >An Architect's View -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ > >Introducing Macromedia Contribute. Web publishing for everyone. >Learn more at http://www.macromedia.com/contribute > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
