Rails - Feb 2005 - Action Web Service and XML RPC Faults

All,

So, I''m playing around with migrating the metaweblog api stuff in Elite
Journal to use AWS.  The included example was a good start, but now I''m
trying to add authentication to it and running into some problems.

According to the MetaWeblog API:

     Applications should use the fault-response scheme defined[1] by
     XML-RPC. For example, trying to create, get, or edit a post without
     a valid username-password should generate a fault. Client
     applications should display the error string, as appropriate, to the
     user, for example, in a dialog, or in a server log.

So I''m trying every concievable way to attempt to return this fault 
object, without success.  Just about every thing I do just throws up a 
500.  What am I missing here?  Has anyone written anything with AWS yet? 
  I''m using both 0.5.0 and HEAD and I just can''t make it go
(with
authentication, without is no problem).  Any clues?

Thanks
-Scott


[1] http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec#faults


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On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:02:02 -0500, Scott Barron
<scott-HDQKq3lYuGDk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> So I''m trying every concievable way to attempt to return this
fault
> object, without success.  Just about every thing I do just throws up a
> 500.  What am I missing here?  Has anyone written anything with AWS yet?
>   I''m using both 0.5.0 and HEAD and I just can''t make it
go (with
> authentication, without is no problem).  Any clues?
Hi,

This will not work in 0.5.0 without the patch at
http://dev.rubyonrails.com/changeset/798, but the correct way to do
this is to throw an exception in your API method.

Exceptions are marshalled back to the caller as XML-RPC fault messages.

This should definitely work in HEAD.

Leon