Questions tagged [wcf-faults]
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Unit testing WCF Faults
What's the best way to unit test expected faults from WCF services?
I am attempting to unit test a WCF service which is (correctly) throwing FaultExceptions for a certain reproducible error. The unit tests get an instance of the WCF client and call…
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How to trace WCF serialization issues / exceptions
I occasionally run into the problem that an application exception is thrown during the WCF-serialization (after returning a DataContract from my OperationContract). The only (and less meaningfull) message I get…
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WCF fault handling
Q How can I get the original exception (occurred on the server) on the client side?
I am working with a self-hosted WCF service and C# 4 and trying to set up proper exception handling.
I have a client that looks like this
private ServiceResponse…
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Why does WCF fault the channel when using security?
Background:
I've noticed that in my WCF services, when I throw an Exception (a plain old exception), the client channel enters the faulted state and has to be aborted and re-created before I can make another call on that channel. That's fine.…
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Does anybody actually use FaultReasonText to localize faults from WCF services?
There is a localization mechanism in WCF that enables one to localize faults returned to client, via a FaultReasonText object that's a part of the fault.
The way this is done is that you pass all possible translations of the fault's message inside a…
urig
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Unit-testing > unreachable code detected warning
Problem
Compiler gives me a warning at a return line with a message:
Unreachable code detected
Question
How can I refactor my unit test so I don't get compiler warning? Any other feedback is also welcome.
Code
I have a Bar class that wraps WCF…
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WCF ValidationFault
I'm using Validation Application Block - Enterprise Library to validate parameters sent to my WCF Service operations. For instance, a certain operation requires the parameter to either be a 1 or 6, like…
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Log WCF Errors on Client
My application calls a web-service using WCF. The call can fail for various reasons:
fault
timeout
connection lost
...
I want to log all such errors. Instead of wrapping every call in a try-catch, I want to do this in one place for all web-service…
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Why Enterprise Library does not throw FaultException in WCF
I use WCF service hosted on IIS.
Also, I use fault contracts to send errors to the client (FaultException<'T>)
On the client side I catch FaultException<'T> to show some error to user.
If some unhandled exception being thrown on a server, WCF…
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WCF Getting "The primary signature must be encrypted." from FaultContract with ProtectionLevel.None
I have an existing asp.net application that talks to load balanced wcf services (iis hosted, in app pool running under account configured as servicePrincipalName, etc.). The wcf services return a few custom faults, all defined with…
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How to return standard message on exception/fault in WCF
In our application all data contract have one parent - OperationResponse and this OperationResponse contains enum (enum type OperationState in property Result) which represents calling result (Ok, InvalidParams, Error).
How can I overwrite WCF…
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Managing / Modifying Deserialisation Faults / Intercepting Responses
Let's say I have the following request object:
[DataContract]
public class MyContract {
[DataMember]
public Guid Token { get; set; }
}
And a WCF service definition as follows:
[ServiceContract]
public interface IMyService {
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WCFFaultException with an error status code is always being returned back to the client as 202 accepted
In our application, if required, we are throwing a fault exception as follows:
throw new WebFaultException(new RequestFaultInfo(errorMessage), System.Net.HttpStatusCode.BadRequest);
The RequestFaultInfo class is as follows:
///
///…
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Exception in a WCF Data service when transfering a byte[]
I'm testing a recent WCF Data Service that I've set.
Most of things are working good, there is only one collection, when I add an object and save change, I got this exception:
System.Data.Services.Client.DataServiceRequestException was unhandled
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service is in a fault state exception only in one environment
I am using the same DLLs of various services that I used in one of the development environment to the Test. I ensured configs are same except for endpoint address where it is the servername in each case.
I dont have any problem in Dev. However, in…
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