Hi All,
The backend to my KUIB app is a REST (WEB transport) service (Progress 11.7.1). As part of the backend I have an event handler class that subscribes to the DataObjectHandler:Invoking events. The Invoking handler is used to do some pre-processing before performing the actual REST requests. My issue is that I can't figure out how to gracefully generate an error within the Invoking handler and return it to the client without continuing to process the request.
I received the example below to get started with my Invoking handler. From this example it appears that I should be able to set poEventArgs:Cancel, but this isn't working. I can't find any documentation on the Cancel property, and when the Cancel property is set, the request just continues on processing. Generating a new AppError stops the request processing, but it doesn't return the error message back to the client.
What I would like to do is cancel the request and return an error message(s) in the response, and then have my KUIB app display the error(s).
/* Event published before the business logic function is called by the handler
@param Progress.Lang.Object The handler publishing the event
@param OperationInvocationEventArgs Event args for this event */
method public void InvokingHandler (input poSender as Progress.Lang.Object,
input poEventArgs as OperationInvocationEventArgs):
define variable httpHeader as HttpHeader no-undo.
httpHeader = poEventArgs:Request:GetHeader('SOMEHEADERVALUE').
if httpHeader:Value eq 'go-away' then
poEventArgs:Cancel = true.
if httpHeader:Value eq 'whoops' then
poEventArgs:Error = new AppError('Error with credentials', 0).
end method.
LouisThanks Peter. Regarding using Cancel, Error, or some other method, I'm definitely open to suggestions. Since I'm handling the connections to the proper domain in this Invoking handler, I think this is where I want to be able to stop processing if the user doesn't have access to the requested URI.
Since posting this question I have been playing around with it trying to get a response returned and this is what I have come up with. I'm thinking the json will need to be tweaked as I'm not exactly sure what KUIB will be expecting. Based on your comments, I could remove the Cancel property and just go with the Error.
Thoughts/suggestions?
jsonArry = NEW JsonArray().
jsonData = NEW JsonObject().
jsonData2 = NEW JsonObject().
jsonData:Add("_retVal", "").
jsonData2:Add("message", "Unauthorized access").
jsonArry:Add(jsonData2).
jsonData:Add("_errors", jsonArry).
jsonData:Write(lcResp, TRUE).
poEventArgs:Cancel = TRUE.
poEventArgs:Response:StatusCode = 400.
poEventArgs:Response:StatusReason = "Unauthorized access".
poEventArgs:Response:ContentType = "application/json".
poEventArgs:Response:ContentLength = LENGTH(lcResp).
oWriter = NEW WebResponseWriter(poEventArgs:Response).
oWriter:Open().
oWriter:Write(lcResp).
oWriter:Close().
poEventArgs:Error = NEW AppError(cStat + " " + cContactMsg, 400).
RETURN.
The result is:
{
"_retVal": "",
"_errors": [
{
"message": "Unauthorized access"
}
]
}I've logged issue PSC00361552 (Fix/define Cancel behaviour for DOH) for this issue. If you want to be added to the list of customers who need this fix, please contact Tech Support.
Peter,
When I don't set the StatusCode, the response status always returns 500. Also, I tried commenting everything out except for setting Error to a new AppError and the following is what is returned:
This is the only code executing:
poEventArgs:Error = NEW AppError("Unauthorized access", 400).
This is what the client receives in the body, and I don't see my error text in any header values either, and the status is 500 on this response. I also noticed that when the responsewriter is used, the response is returned right away, using just the AppError causes the response to take just over 2 seconds which makes me think it's timing out.
{
"_retVal": "",
"_errors": []
}
I need to be able to return the error details to the client. Do I need to use json in the AppError?
Louis