On 8/31/05, Jarmo Doc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK, but is it actually required? If my client executes the following:
1. service.deleteEmployee(5);
2. System.out.println("deleted empid 5");
Is execution of line 2 a guarantee that line 1 succeeded?
>From: Rogério Luz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Explicit response required from WS methods?
>Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:43:41 -0300
>
>I think it would be a good practice return at least a boolean to ensure
>your
>deleteEmployee method really deleted an employee.
>
>On 8/31/05, Jarmo Doc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Let's say that I have a WS method like so:
> >
> > deleteEmployee(int empid) throws SOAPException
> > {
> > }
> >
> > Is it sensible for this method to have a void return type or should it
> > always return something, for example the empid just deleted (for client
> > correlation purposes, amongst other things)?
> >
> > I ask because it's not clear to me what's going on under the covers. I
> > could imagine, for example, that void would be OK because any kind of
> > problem explicitly detected by the web service method would throw a
> > SOAPException and any kind of network issue (e.g. request not even
>making
> > it
> > to the web service) or a failure of the service to execute the method
> > might
> > cause the underlying infrastructure itself to throw a SOAPException
> > (because, for example, HTTP 200 OK was never seen by the client). So the
> > absence of a SOAPException might reasonably imply success and hence no
> > return type was required.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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