How to retrieve soap fault messages returned by AXIS server in .Net client

[Paul]

Hi,

I have a web service application that uses AXIS at the server side and
C# at the client side. the C# client code was generated using wsdl.exe.
When AXIS raised an exception, it sends the soap exception back to
client with HTTP 500 internal server error:

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:18:16 GMT

Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

01de
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<soapenv:Body>
<soapenv:Fault>
<faultcode>soapenv:Server.userException</faultcode>

<faultstring>com.foo.command.exception.DuplicateDa taException: License
is already in use</faultstring>
<detail/>
</soapenv:Fault>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>0000
When C# client code reads the reasponse, it raises a WebException and
stops reading the saop body, I wonder if there is anyway for me to read
the faultCode and faultString when such exception is raised.

Thanks

Paul

[martin]

You can use the WebException.Response property to get a stream and then read
from that. But that's not really a nice way to do it. Most likely there is a
smarter way!

If you skip the HTTP level classes and use SoapClient instead I think you
will get a proper exception with .FaultString properties etc.

rgrds,
martin

"Paul" wrote:

I have a web service application that uses AXIS at the server side and
C# at the client side. the C# client code was generated using wsdl.exe.
When AXIS raised an exception, it sends the soap exception back to
client with HTTP 500 internal server error:

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:18:16 GMT

Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

01de
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<soapenv:Body>
<soapenv:Fault>
<faultcode>soapenv:Server.userException</faultcode>

<faultstring>com.foo.command.exception.DuplicateDa taException: License
is already in use</faultstring>
<detail/>
</soapenv:Fault>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>0000
When C# client code reads the reasponse, it raises a WebException and
stops reading the saop body, I wonder if there is anyway for me to read
the faultCode and faultString when such exception is raised.

Thanks

Paul