From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-09-28T12:07:19+09:00
Subject: Re: raising exceptions across DRb and XMLRPC

On 9/27/05, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
> 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

Hm, now all I have to do is figure out how to send a
XMLRPC::FaultException.  Anyone have any example code?