Handling Multiple Service Responses

Fraser Goffin wrote:

one of my colleagues they suggested that when returning a SAP Fault
their might be some behaviour implemented by the particular library
used (consistent with SAP Fault processing) which may occur by
default and which, in some cases of business errors, may not be what
is intended.

That wouldn't surprise me. The Recommendation really doesn't insist
normatively on how application errors are handled, and I suspect it would
in some cases be difficult to get agreement on what's an error at the
application level anyway. So, it wouldn't be surprising at all if certain
libraries or runtimes made the assumption that SAP faults were related to
middleware rather than application issues. I should have acknowledged
that in my last note. I just wanted to point out that it's definitely K
per the Recommendation to use SAP faults for application-level errors
should you wish to.

Noah


Noah Mendelsohn
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