CustomError class

Question

User136806914 posted

Hi,

 I need to create a CustomError class & send a list to the client How do i approach?

I tried to follow this tutorial but couldn't figure out how to send a list

https://www.tutorialsteacher.com/csharp/custom-exception-csharp

Thanks,

Praveen

Answer 1

User753101303 posted

Hi,

Some more context could help. You have an existing service of which kind ? This is to report errors on submitted data ?

If possible you could model your approach based rather on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/web-api/overview/formats-and-model-binding/model-validation-in-aspnet-web-api ie if you return a https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/400 status code to tell the request sends invalid data all along with a json payload describing the errors.

Answer 2

User136806914 posted

It's a WCF service & i am trying to create a CustomException. Yes it is to report errors on the submitted data from a web page & need to throw an exception when a particular condition meets.

I created a serializable class & inherited Exception class, in the constructor i passed error message that need to be displayed. Along with that i also need to  send  List back to UI & i am trying to figure that out

Answer 3

User475983607 posted

The common approach is returning a custom soap exception.  The official WCF documentation covers the details.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wcf/sending-and-receiving-faults

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wcf/specifying-and-handling-faults-in-contracts-and-services

Answer 4

User-330142929 posted

Hi,
If we just want to capture the server custom errors on the client-side, we could use FaultException class.

Server-side.

public string Test(string name)
{
if (name.Length<2)
{
FaultReasonText text = new FaultReasonText("name string length should greater than two ");
FaultReason fr = new FaultReason(text);
throw new FaultException(fr);
}
return DateTime.Now.ToString();
}

Client-side.

ServiceReference1.ServiceClient client = new ServiceReference1.ServiceClient();
try
{
var result = client.Test("A");
Console.WriteLine(result);
}
catch (FaultException e)
{
Console.WriteLine(e.Reason.GetMatchingTranslation().Text);
}

We could also use the custom class.
Server-side(Console application).

class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
using (ServiceHost sh = new ServiceHost(typeof(MyService)))
{
sh.Open();
Console.WriteLine("serivce is ready....");
Console.ReadLine();
sh.Close();
}
}
}
[ServiceContract]
public interface IService
{
[OperationContract]
[FaultContract(typeof(ErrorDetail))]
void Test(string username,string password,string password2,int age);

}
public class MyService : IService
{

public void Test(string username,string password,string password2,int age)
{
ErrorDetail detail = new ErrorDetail();
if (username.Length<2)
{
detail.UserNameFaultInfo = "\nusername string length should greater than 2";
}
if (password.Length<6)
{
detail.PasswordFaultInfo = "\npassword string length should greater than 2";
}
if (password2!=password)
{
detail.PasswordFaultInfo += "\npassword is not matched";
}
if (age<0||age>120)
{
detail.AgeFaultInfo = "\nage is not valid";
}
if (detail.UserNameFaultInfo!=null||detail.PasswordFaultInfo!=null||detail.AgeFaultInfo!=null)
{
throw new FaultException<ErrorDetail>(detail, "there is something wrong with the input information");
}
}
}
[DataContract]
public class ErrorDetail
{
[DataMember]
public string UserNameFaultInfo { get; set; } = null;
[DataMember]
public string PasswordFaultInfo { get; set; } = null;
[DataMember]
public string AgeFaultInfo { get; set; } = null;
}

App.config

<system.serviceModel>
<services>
<service name="VM1.MyService">
<endpoint address="" binding="basicHttpBinding" contract="VM1.IService" >
</endpoint>
<endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange" ></endpoint>
<host>
<baseAddresses>
<add baseAddress="http://localhost:5566"/>
</baseAddresses>
</host>
</service>
</services>
<behaviors>
<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior>
<serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>
<serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true"/>
</behavior>
</serviceBehaviors>
</behaviors>
</system.serviceModel>

Client(Console application) call by adding service reference.

ServiceReference1.ServiceClient client = new ServiceReference1.ServiceClient();
try
{
client.Test("a", "124", "234", 134);
}
catch (FaultException<ErrorDetail> e)
{
Console.WriteLine(e.Reason.GetMatchingTranslation().Text);
ErrorDetail ed = e.Detail;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append(ed.UserNameFaultInfo);
sb.Append(ed.PasswordFaultInfo);
sb.Append(ed.AgeFaultInfo);
Console.WriteLine(sb.ToString());
}

Result.

Feel free to let me know if there is anything I can help with.

Best Regards

Abraham