> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew J. Dovey [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 3:39 PM
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> Subject: Re: String packing Explain
>
> > Any suggestions on how I should handle this?  We've got no
> > diagnostics for
> > this kind of thing because we expected that the WSDL would
> > keep it from
> > happening.
>
> We've got no diagnostics for this sort of thing because it is a protocol
> level error rather than an SRW/U level error. There's nothing to stop a
> nasty client ignoring the WSDL and sending bad stuff to an SRW server
> but the SRW server would generate a SOAP fault rather than an SRW
> diagnostics.
>
> The SRU equivalent to a SOAP fault is a http error code so I think the
> answer should be return a http 400 erro (Bad request)

We do have a diagnostic 6: Unsupported Parameter Value with a detail of the
name of the parameter.  I think I'll throw that.

Ralph