[GitHub] markusthoemmes commented on a change in pull request #3951: Docs fixes for action invocations

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markusthoemmes commented on a change in pull request #3951: Docs fixes for action invocations
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/pull/3951#discussion_r208494703
 
 

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 File path: docs/actions.md
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 @@ -233,7 +234,10 @@ Each action invocation results in an activation record which contains the follow
 - `response`: A dictionary that defines the following keys
   - `status`: The activation result, which might be one of the following values:
     - *"success"*: the action invocation completed successfully.
-    - *"application error"*: the action invocation was successful, but the action returned an error value on purpose, for instance because a precondition on the arguments was not met.
+    - *"application error"*: the action was invoked, but returned an error value on purpose, for instance because a precondition on the arguments was not met. This status code is also returned under specific conditions such as:
+      - wrong docker container name
+      - initialization of a function failed
+      - action timed out
 
 Review comment:
   Especially "initaliziation failed" should be moved to the list below. Even as of today, most of the init failures are "app-dev-errors", I'm in the process of merging #3941 so it's safe to change.

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