I know...another "best practices" thread ;-) I'm wondering how others out there are handling argument types for web services?
Typically if an argument is meant to be numeric you would code it as such. Now if someone calling the webservice were to pass in a string instead of a number and error would be thrown. I'm guessing depending on the langauge consuming the web service the error they get will differ?? Will that error likley tell them they passed an invalid typed argument? or would it be tough to determine what went wrong? Would it be better/worse to simply make that argument accept a string and then in the method make sure it's a number and if not return a meaningful error message (so no real error occurs)? or is it better to leave it up to the web service consumers to try/catch errors in their own dang app and read the web service specs to know what kind of arguments are to be passed? ;-) thoughts?? TIA Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.electricedgesystems.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:214602 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
