Hi Jason,
You could find pretty nice description here:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Fuse_ESB_Enterprise/7.0/html-single/Developing_Apache_CXF_Interceptors/index.html
The fault chain on client side is working in following way:
a) outgoing
if exception happens in client outgoing interceptor, outbound chain is
unwound (by calling onFault() method in outgoing interceptors) and control is
returned to the application level code. The fault chain is not really required
in this case, because client will receive programmatic exception
b) incoming
If the response is an error message, it is passed into the client fault
processing interceptor chain. Here fault chain is really necessary.
If any of the interceptors on the inbound chain create an error condition,
the chain is unwound and control is redirected to application code
Server side:
a) incoming
If any of the interceptors on the inbound chain create an error condition, the
chain is unwound and a fault is dispatched to the consumer.
An interceptor chain is unwound by calling the fault processing method on all
of the previously invoked interceptors.
b) outgoing
If the response is an exception, it is passed through the fault processing
interceptor chain.
If any of the interceptors on the outbound chain create an error condition, the
chain is unwound and a fault message is dispatched.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Andrei.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jasonmp...@gmail.com [mailto:jasonmp...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
> Jason Pell
> Sent: Mittwoch, 27. Juli 2016 07:22
> To: users@cxf.apache.org
> Subject: Fault chains in cxf clients
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get some more insight into when the outgoing and incoming fault
> interceptor chains are activated. I had thought that the fault chains are
> automatically executed if a Fault is thrown from an interceptor. But it
> appears
> as though this is not correct, at least for clients. I think it works like
> that server
> side.
>
> I noticed that the XMLMessageInInterceptor manually activates the incoming
> fault chain in the xml in the message is a XMLFault
>
> Is it a bug that throwing a fault from a interceptor in the outgoing and
> incoming chains does not automatically activate the related fault chain?
>
> I am using cxf 3.1.6
