Chris, You almost have it. You just need to return the fault, not the message of the fault. What I do is declare a $retVal and place either the results of my method, or the fault in that and return it. i.e. $retVal = 1; if (!true) { $retVal = new SOAP_Fault("Expecting True", "Server", "MyNamespace", 1); } return $retVal; Rob "Chris Covell" <chris.covell@gmail.com> wrote in message a0f929830407190139439fbed8@mail.gmail.com">news:a0f929830407190139439fbed8@mail.gmail.com... > Hello there, Al tells me I am on the right list, so here is my question... > > As a bit of background, I am using pear SOAP 0.8RC3 beta under php-4.3.4-1.1. > > I have a soap server process that works fine ! I have agot a client > that connects to it fine also. I have adopted the technique of using > the dispatch_map so that a wsdl is created automagically: > > $this->__dispatch_map['request'] = > array( 'in' => array('input' => 'string'), > 'out' => array('return string' => 'string'), > ); > > As you can see I have defined in and out parameters as strings. > > Now, I have a customer connecting to this server using a Java client. > He has built his client based on my wsdl. He wants me to return errors > as soap faults. I am doing it like this: > > $fault = new SOAP_Fault('Does not exist', '99'); > return $fault->message(); > > The trouble is that he is seeing the SOAP fault data, but it is > wrapped up in a string, this is what he describes: > > "In case of error I expect your service to return something like this: > > <http> > <soap:fault/> > </http> > > But actually your service is returning something like this: > > <http> > <soap:return> > <soap:fault/gt&; > </soap:return> > </http> > > The SOAP Fault is actually "masked" inside a normal result. In my > opinion you have do make a little change in your WSDL to define the > possible returned faults." > > So my question is: > > How do I return a soap fault in the way he describes ? Can I define a > "fault" out in my dispatch map -> wsdl ? > > Hopefully you can help me ! > > Chris... -- PHP Soap Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php