Return custom exception data through FaultContract
In an XML Web Service and WCF service, the server side will return any unhandled exception as SoapFault in the returned message. For WCF service operations, exceptions are returned to the client through two steps:
- Map exception conditions to custom SOAP faults
- Services and client send and receive SOAP faults as exceptions
By default, WCF will return the simple error message or complete exception information (including Callstack) as the Fault content. However, sometimes we want to encapsulate the raw exception information or return some user-friendly error to the client side. To support this kind of customized exception-information format, WCF has provided the FaultContract and FaultException features. ...
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