How to stop the fault and return a normal message

[Je...@royalsunalliance.ca]

i'm writing a little Handler to convert the faults to another XML, which i 
hope to be returned to the caller without an HTTP 500 error. In doing so, 
i placed my handler as the first in the request chain and the last in the 
response chain.
I overwrote its onFault() method to remove the fault from the message and 
place another message in it. 
On the response, I can see my injected message but I still see the HTTP500 
being thrown.
Examining the code more in details, I came across the following in 
SimpleChain which shows that regardless of the message, the original fault 
keeps getting thrown:
        } catch( AxisFault f ) {
            // Something went wrong.  If we haven't already put this fault
            // into the MessageContext's response message, do so and make 
sure
            // we only do it once.  This allows onFault() methods to 
safely
            // set headers and such in the response message without them
            // getting stomped.
            if (!msgContext.isPropertyTrue(CAUGHTFAULT_PROPERTY)) {
                // Attach the fault to the response message; enabling 
access to the
                // fault details while inside the handler onFault methods.
                Message respMsg = new Message(f);
                msgContext.setResponseMessage(respMsg);
                msgContext.setProperty(CAUGHTFAULT_PROPERTY, 
Boolean.TRUE);
            }
            while( --i >= 0 )
                ((Handler) handlers.elementAt( i )).onFault( msgContext );
            throw f;
        }
Which ultimately causes the 500 error to be returned in AxisServlet:
    private void configureResponseFromAxisFault(HttpServletResponse 
response,
                                                AxisFault fault) {
        ..
        int status = getHttpServletResponseStatus(fault);
        if (status == HttpServletResponse.SC_UNAUTHORIZED) {
            // unauth access results in authentication request
            // TODO: less generic realm choice?
            response.setHeader("WWW-Authenticate", "Basic 
realm=\"AXIS\"");
        }
        response.setStatus(status);
    }

Any suggestions?

Jeff Saremi


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