My question is similar to that raised at: http://restlet-discuss.1400322.n2.nabble.com/Sending-server-side-exceptions-error-codes-back-to-client-td7219795.html#a7229629 http://restlet-discuss.1400322.n2.nabble.com/Sending-server-side-exceptions-error-codes-back-to-client-td7219795.html#a7229629 , but since that has not been answered and this seems like a really basic issue, I thought I would try posting again.
The question is simply this - how to get the details of an error/exception that occurs on the Restlet server back to my Restlet client? I can see how to do this if my client were just a browser (I could construct an HTML page on the server and return it). I thought that it would be pretty simple - set the Status code and Status description. But as the discussion above points out, that doesn't work. I then thought that I could just set the Status code and send back a String Representation of the error message. But that doesn't work either. In particular, if I have: msg = "error xyz occurred"; this.setStatus(Status.SERVER_ERROR_INTERNAL, msg); StringRepresentation result = new StringRepresentation(msg, MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN); return result; The client side call: commitsRep = commitsResource.get(); Sets commitsRep == null (!). Note: it is only set to null when the status != 200. So, I could set the status to 200 and then return the StringRepresentation and then on the client, check to see if I have a StringRepresentation (which would be an error) or some other type (which would be a success). But surely there has got to be an easier way - what am I missing? (I have created my own StatusService on the server, I have thrown my own exception, but no joy). Thanks in advance for any hep - and thanks to Tim P for collecting all the links in the thread above - but those weren't enough for me to work around the problem. RB -- View this message in context: http://restlet-discuss.1400322.n2.nabble.com/Handling-exceptions-errors-when-using-Restlet-for-Client-and-Server-tp7578190.html Sent from the Restlet Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2982701
