Also, is the InnerException property populated? Can you see that from your logs?

Regards,

James

On 08/10/2012, at 11:00 PM, James Darbyshire <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dino,
> 
> For the 'No route to host' exception, can you try using an IP address rather 
> than a DNS record?
> 
> I agree that async exceptions can be a pain... I have felt it in the past!
> 
> Can you post an example of the way you are calling your services?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> James
> 
> On 08/10/2012, at 10:24 PM, Dean Cleaver <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> I’m only sending 30 to 300 records, no images (they’re handled separately, 
>> and the locations having errors are not using images).
>>  
>> Problem I have is that they were able to connect milliseconds later to send 
>> the error report to me – so if it’s a bad connection, it’s intermittent.
>>  
>> I have exception handling in every single function in the entire app – but 
>> these exceptions are not occurring anywhere in my code – that’s my core 
>> issue.
>>  
>> Dino
>>  
>> From: Jason Hardman [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 19:29
>> To: Dean Cleaver; James Darbyshire
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: [MonoTouch] Any ideas what causes this?
>>  
>> When I had the data size issue my web server was trying to send 50000 
>> records at once.  Once I changed it to 1000 records it was all good.  If the 
>> record counts are low, maybe images are the problem?  For me it was 
>> consistent and easy to replicate.  After relooking at your errors, exception 
>> 2 and 3 looks like it was unable to connect to the server.  Maybe exception 
>> 1 was caused by corrupted data from being dropped?  In any case you should 
>> put exception handling around your web calls and either try the call again 
>> or inform the user of a bad connection.  The nature of mobile apps is that 
>> will not always be connected so you need to be able to handle these 
>> situations.
>>  
>> From: Dean Cleaver [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> Sent: Monday, 8 October 2012 12:40 p.m.
>> To: James Darbyshire
>> Cc: Jason Hardman; [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: [MonoTouch] Any ideas what causes this?
>>  
>> Appreciate it James, but I fear it’s possibly something where you have to be 
>> actively using the app 24/7 for it to occur. This app is designed for Valet 
>> Parking providers, who issue tickets and process requests all day long – 
>> this is why I’ve not seen it as I just don’t use the app enough to see it.
>>  
>> I’m also curious that some venues see more of this issue than others. Either 
>> means their data packets are larger than the rest (not the case as I have 
>> eyeballed some and they should have much less data than other venues) or 
>> their internet connection is really slow/problematic.
>>  
>> Dino
>>  
>> From: James Darbyshire [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 17:54
>> To: Dean Cleaver
>> Cc: Jason Hardman; [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [MonoTouch] Any ideas what causes this?
>>  
>> Dino,
>>  
>> Always happy to test on my devices if you need a hand. 
>> 
>> Regards,
>>  
>> James
>> 
>> On 08/10/2012, at 9:50 AM, Dean Cleaver <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> I’m using the standard Visual Studio calls to the web client – so if I have 
>> a method called “Fred” I call “service.Fred()”.I don’t use async, but I do 
>> use my own threads so there’s no blocking.
>>  
>> I’ll look into the response property, but it’s a long slow fix – won’t be 
>> till we publish to Apple again that I’ll start to get that information, and 
>> can then look at fixing it. I can’t reproduce these errors, but they’re 
>> happening to a few clients in the field.
>>  
>> Dino
>>  
>> From: Jason Hardman [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 17:10
>> To: Dean Cleaver; [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: Any ideas what causes this?
>>  
>> How are you making the web calls?  It is your choice to use async or not.  
>> Maybe you are using a library that is forcing it to use async?  If you are 
>> there might be sync methods available.  I know RestSharp has sync and async 
>> methods.  Personally I am using async so we can use the same code on Windows 
>> Phone if we ever get that far.
>>  
>> The WebException has a Response property that you should be able to use to 
>> determine the Url that was called.
>>  
>> From: Dean Cleaver [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> Sent: Monday, 8 October 2012 10:21 a.m.
>> To: Jason Hardman; [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: Any ideas what causes this?
>>  
>> Yeah – I figured it was because of some Async calls, but I don’t use the 
>> Async calls directly – so Mono? must be calling async?
>>  
>> And I have about 80 to 100 different web service calls – so I’m unsure which 
>> ones to page. If there was any hint as to what part of my code was causing 
>> the problem it would be useful, but I just have nothing to go on.
>>  
>> From: Jason Hardman [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 16:15
>> To: Dean Cleaver; [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: Any ideas what causes this?
>>  
>> The errors are to do with making calls to the web asynchronously i.e. the 
>> error is occurring on a different thread to the code that started it, hence 
>> your namespace is not displayed. 
>>  
>> I have experienced the first error when the data being returned was large.  
>> My fix was to change my WCF Web API to use paging and then update my 
>> RestSharp code (in MonoTouch) to make the web calls while passing the paging 
>> parameters.  RestSharp is a library that simplifies making web calls to REST 
>> web services as it automatically serialises the data into objects.
>>  
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dean Cleaver
>> Sent: Monday, 8 October 2012 7:56 a.m.
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [MonoTouch] Any ideas what causes this?
>>  
>> And this one:
>>  
>> System.Net.WebException: Error: ConnectFailure (No route to host) ---> 
>> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No route to host
>> at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Connect (System.Net.EndPoint remoteEP) 
>> [0x00000] in :0 
>> at System.Net.WebConnection.Connect (System.Net.HttpWebRequest request) 
>> [0x00000] in :0 
>> --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
>> at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetRequestStream (IAsyncResult asyncResult) 
>> [0x00000] in :0 
>> at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetRequestStream () [0x00000] in :0 
>> at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke 
>> (System.String method_name, System.Object[] parameters) [0x00000] in :0
>>  
>> Dino
>>  
>> From: Dean Cleaver 
>> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 13:48
>> To: Dean Cleaver; [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: Any ideas what causes this?
>>  
>> Likewise this one:
>>  
>> System.Net.WebException: The request timed out
>> at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetResponse (IAsyncResult asyncResult) 
>> [0x00000] in :0 
>> at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse () [0x00000] in :0 
>> at System.Web.Services.Protocols.WebClientProtocol.GetWebResponse 
>> (System.Net.WebRequest request) [0x00000] in :0
>>  
>> Once again – none of my code nor namespaces at all. How does this happen?
>>  
>> Dino
>>  
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dean Cleaver
>> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 13:47
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [MonoTouch] Any ideas what causes this?
>>  
>> System.Net.WebException: Error getting response stream (ReadDone2): 
>> ReceiveFailure ---> System.Exception:
>> at System.Net.WebConnection.ReadDone(IAsyncResult result)
>> at System.Net.WebConnection.HandleError (WebExceptionStatus st, 
>> System.Exception e, System.String where) [0x00000] in :0 
>> --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
>> at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetResponse (IAsyncResult asyncResult) 
>> [0x00000] in :0 
>> at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse () [0x00000] in :0 
>> at System.Web.Services.Protocols.WebClientProtocol.GetWebResponse 
>> (System.Net.WebRequest request) [0x00000] in :0
>>  
>> It must be being reported by this?
>>  
>> AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += 
>> HandleAppDomainCurrentDomainUnhandledException;
>>  
>> Because none of the above is my code – there is no “Xception” nor 
>> “KleverLogic” namespace in the call. And any ideas what could cause it?
>>  
>> Dino
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