I think that 10: 'Illegal query' is logical in this case. It isn't
inconsistent with SRW, it's just that the error gets caught one step earlier
with SRW.

Janifer

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From: Robert Sanderson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, 28 April 2003 13:23
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Subject: Diagnostics vs SOAP faults


In SRW it is illegal to send a request that doesn't have a query or xQuery
parameter. Sending one is thus a client side error, and should generate a
SOAP Client fault.

However in SRU, we don't have these Faults. Currently I just dump a super
brief and not very descriptive HTML page, but surely something better than
this can be done if the client sends an empty/null query?

For example: http://srw.o-r-g.org:8080/l5r/?query=

We have the catchall diagnostic 10: 'Illegal query' ... but then we're
diverging responses for broken requests between SRW and SRU...


Thoughts?

Rob

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