Service error notification on a mashup

[iguerra]

Thingowtx 9.6.5

I know it's possible to show a message on a mashup if a service gives an error.

The message can be a fixed token on the available localizations, or a string.

The string can also report the [server-message] that is the string description of the error generated by the service (plus some additional text !), that is in this format

Error executing service ***SERVICENAME**** . Message :: ***ERROR DESCRIPTION *** - See Script Error Log for more details.

Showing "See Script Error Log for more details", but also "Error executing service" is not very professional, even more there is a "customer" reading that ... (which error log ??)

Moveover  I would show a dynamic text returned by the service (in case of error) as a "wanted behaviour" for the error notification, because there may be more conditions...

Is there a way to to that ?

For me it could be enough to show the error description only instead of the whole message. There should be something like [server-message-msg]

[Constantine · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Not according to my knowledge. What I do is wrap my “external” services code in try/catch and return data + error messages as an infotable, which I then handle via expressions on the mashup side.

Regards,

Constantine

[iguerra]

yes I understand, absolutely feasible, but each service with its own result data should be packed into anther datashape containing result data + eventual error code. So 2 datashapes wfor each type of result (where want to handle a possible error).

As a platform, would be easier if there was just the "native" output data on the service, and in case of error it can be shown with the status message (with a string).

I also use try-catch for all services, but for some "expected errors" due to user bad input data I wanted to throw a custom error that I would show using the narive "status message" directly, but not feasible now.

Thanks for your response. I try to propose an idea for a new "tag"  similar to [server-message] , in order to show just the error string  value, that is
Error executing service ***SERVICENAME**** . Message :: ***ERROR DESCRIPTION*** - See Script Error Log for more details.
That I could also tonekize (at service level) and show on the user language.

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