Return Soap Fault in CF web service

[Dina Hess]

How do I return a Soap Fault like this:

      <soapenv:Fault>

         <faultcode>soapenv:Client.Validation</faultcode>

         <faultstring>SalesCode must be 5 characters in length</faultstring>

        ...

      </soapenv:Fault>

instead of a CFCInvocationException?

[raZorTTZ]

Hi Dina,

Did you find a solution to your problem? I'm looking at doing the same thing.

Cheers,
Simon

[Dina Hess]

I had to use a workaround. In the complex type (CFC) returned by the web

service, I added two additional properties, success (boolean) and fault

(string). That way, if validation fails, I set success to false and return

validation messages in the fault property using syntax like this:

. It communicates what the client needs to know but

is not in the format I originally wanted to implement. I did find a clue

about how to get control of the SOAP envelope in a comment made by Arthur

Blake at the end of one of Ben Nadel's blog entries about using HTTP to

consume a web service. He said he could customize the XML request/response by

writing a "proxy" in ColdFusion that forwards to the real SOAP service. I

never did figure out how to go about doing that, so if you happen to get

your head around it, please post your solution. In general, I found that

ColdFusion 8 doesn't play nicely with a pre-defined complex WSDL that

import XSDs and doesn't honor a "required=no" setting in the property tag

of a complex type's CFC when generating its WSDL dynamically. In fact, I

have a whole list of "gotchas" on this... Didn't mean to write a book, but

you opened an old wound that had just about healed. Good luck, Simon. Hope

I didn't douse too much water on your passion to move forward with this.