From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-09-28T11:28:21+09:00
Subject: Re: raising exceptions across DRb and XMLRPC

Florian Gro� wrote:
> Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> 
>> Say, an error happens on a Node.  How should I transmit that error
>> back across DRb and XMLRPC to the GUIs?  Does XMLRPC do well with
>> exceptions?  Should I come up with my own custom error-reporting
>> scheme?
> 
> 
> It is no problem with DRb as it can safely transport exceptions across 
> the network. No special casing is needed.
> 
> I'm not sure about XMLRPC.

Pretty sure XML-RPC has a defined means for expressing exceptions, or 
faults:


http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec


James

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