Re: am I missing some error code

[Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com>]

"James Balestriere (jbalestr)" <jbalestr@cisco.com> wrote:
> Hi ,
> 
> Someone sends this request
> <rpc message-id="8.25">
>  
> <copy-config><target><running/></target><source><startup/></copy-config>
> </rpc>
> 
> and gets an operation-failed error and starts questioning the
> capabilities
> my box supports.
> 
> But, when I go through the error codes in Appendix A, I do not see any
> error code
> which deals with malformed XML so I have to use the catch-all
> operation-failed. 
> I think in some cases returning operation-failed to malformed xml could
> be a
>  bit misleading.
> 
> Have I missed some error code somewhere which is more appropriate ?
> or do we need to add one ?

You can use your own <error-app-tag>.  And you can also send your own
structured well-defined error messages <error-info>.  We're using ~10
error-app-tag and corresponding error-info; nor for this particular
case though.  We just send a generic operation-failed with:

    <error-message xml:lang="en">
       The end tag 'copy-config' does not match the start tag 'source'.
    </error-message>


/martin

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