throwing and handling exceptions in web services

[Lachlan James]

Hi,

I was just wondering how to best throw and catch
exceptions in web services.

I have created a web service that throws 3 or 4 different
types of exceptions. Depending on which exception is
thrown I would like the client to be able to act
accordingly, but how can the client catch an exception
that doesn't exist on their system?

Is there a better way to inform consuming code of
different errors that are occuring. I can't help but feel
if ms included the throws keyword like java we wouldn't
have this problem because the consuming code that is
generated would know about which exceptions a particular
service could throw.

Thanks,

Lachlan James

 

[Lachlan James]

I guess the best I can do is create a SoapException and
stick my exception details inside it. I guess that means
that the client will have to know about the different
exceptions they might encounter.

If anyone has any comments that would be helpful.

Thanks,

Lachlan