Fault message types: Why do we need them?

Hi guys,
I have a bpm scenario created, tested and working.
This bpm starts with a async receive, a Sync Send to a R3 system by an ABAP proxy and a final async send to the original system.
I'm contemplating exception handling and other type of errors. Meaning, if the abap proxy dumps I can raise an exception and map it on the XI environment. The thing is, on sxmb_moni I get the exception handler, with the exception texts, id's, etc... from the R3 being mapped to the XI fault message type.
But the problem is I can't get to map the text from the fault message type into any field from the response of the original system.
I've searched the forum and I've seen that this area is surrounded by doubts and questions...
But in the end I'm forced to place the question, why do I need the fault message types? What use can I give them, besides of the cute little thunder on the sxmb_moni?
Thanks for your attention guys

Hi Krishna,
I've read the SAP description about Fault Message Types but I'm still struggling on how to use them correctly.
Why do we need them if I can't do nothing with it on the BPM side? After the mapping of the FMT, I'd like to acess it so that I can send a description back to the original system...The thing is, in BPM you can't acess the FMT, you can only create a new BRANCH (on a block step) for it...
I've tried to acess the description text on trace which comes with the message, but it seems that the trace only serves for posting info, and not for getting any...
The Mapping Runtime Constants have some information where you can read some descriptions, but nothing related to the errors....You can read the Receiver service, sender, interface_namespace, but nothing from the ERROR tag...
Is there a way to get the description? Or anything related to the error tag?
Thanks in advance

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I am relatively new to the web service framework in SAP. My problem scenario is as follows.
I have a WSDL file of a webservice from 3rd party non-SAP s/w and I want to replicate the same webservice into SAP by creating FM in SE37 with same imp/exp parameters and functionality.
So I first created a consumer proxy using the external WSDL file of non-SAP webservice. This generated imp/exp DDIC structures in SAP. Now I created a RFC FM in SE37 with similar Imp/exp parameters and relesed this FM as a webservice. I then created another consumer proxy using WSDL of this newly created webservice in SAP.
In the old consumer proxy I see a structure as SOAPFault as a Fault message type which has 3 fields ERRORCODE, TEXT, DETAILS but in the newly created consumer proxy I don't see Fault message types but i see exceptions which i mentioned in exception tabs while creating the FM. The imp/exp parameters are identical.
So my question is while creating a web service in SAP using a FM in SE37, what needs to be done in order to get the Fault message types getting created automatically when we create a consumer proxy for this webserivice?
Also based on the WSDL of 3rd party system , can i replicate the same web service in SAP ?
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BR
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Hi Krishna,
I've read the SAP description about Fault Message Types but I'm still struggling on how to use them correctly.
Why do we need them if I can't do nothing with it on the BPM side? After the mapping of the FMT, I'd like to acess it so that I can send a description back to the original system...The thing is, in BPM you can't acess the FMT, you can only create a new BRANCH (on a block step) for it...
I've tried to acess the description text on trace which comes with the message, but it seems that the trace only serves for posting info, and not for getting any...
The Mapping Runtime Constants have some information where you can read some descriptions, but nothing related to the errors....You can read the Receiver service, sender, interface_namespace, but nothing from the ERROR tag...
Is there a way to get the description? Or anything related to the error tag?
Thanks in advance

What is fault message type in mapping

hi folks,
what is the use of fault message type in message mapping . where do we use them .please spare a little time to type rather to refer to other blogs. have a nice day

Hi Bose
Fault messages are used to propogate / send back the error maessage to the calling application. This is used when there is a failue and the sending system needs to know what the error was. This is more of catching Application Errors.
Also please go through the link below to get the details for fault messages...
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/5d/a45c3cff8ca92be10000000a114084/content.htm
fault message is a message that describes an application-specific error situation
we have standardised fault message in XI.
Fault message types are designed for application-specific errors that occur on the inbound side and that are reported back to the sender or persisted in monitoring.
In the synchronous case, when an application-specific error occurs on the inbound side, instead of sending a response message back to the sender, the application can send a fault message to handle the error.
The fault message of the application for an asynchronous ABAP server proxy is persisted for monitoring. In the case asynchronous of Java server proxies, the fault message is part of a negative application acknowledgement
Application-specific means that the application on the inbound side triggers the error itself because, for example, the request message did not contain sufficient information
See the below links
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/5d/a45c3cff8ca92be10000000a114084/content.htm
Asynchronus RFC exception handling
XI Alerts are not getting triggered from proxy servers
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/ee5bc490-0201-0010-e9b5-a258cf083bca
/people/sap.user72/blog/2006/01/16/xi-propagation-of-meaningful-error-information-to-soap-client
Fault Message
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/11/02/fault-message-types--a-demo-part-1
You can use Fault messages when you want to handle errors at the Inbound side ie at the destination side.
check this nice blog also
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/11/02/fault-message-types--a-demo-part-1
Fault Messages
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/5d/a45c3cff8ca92be10000000a114084/frameset.htm
Usage of Fault Messages in Synchronous interfaces
/people/sap.user72/blog/2006/01/16/xi-propagation-of-meaningful-error-information-to-soap-client
usage of fault messages in asynchronous interfaces
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/11/02/fault-message-types--a-demo-part-1
Have a look at "/people/sap.user72/blog/2006/01/16/xi-propagation-of-meaningful-error-information-to-soap-client"
for more details have a look on these links

Fault messages - /people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/11/02/fault-message-types--a-demo-part-1
Also ref:
Handling Web Service SOAP Fault Responses in SAP NetWeaver XI -
/people/jin.shin/blog/2007/05/21/handling-web-service-soap-fault-responses-in-sap-netweaver-xi
check this out
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/5d/a45c3cff8ca92be10000000a114084/content.htm
demo - /people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/11/02/fault-message-types--a-demo-part-1
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/11/02/fault-message-types--a-demo-part-1 - this is sure to help you.
Thanks!!!
Regards
Abhishek Agrahari

Error handling using fault message type in outbound synchronous ABAP proxy

Hi,
We've a scenario, outbound synchronous ABAP proxy to synchronous SOAP receiver. The requirement is to send multiple records in a single rquest and get response for all the records sent (in the same response message).
Say if I send 10 records from ECC, I should get 10 records as response from SOAP to ECC. But the problem here is, there could be some invalid requests, for which an invalid error status code should be sent as part of response.
Source Structure
Req_Proxy
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And now we are planning to make use of Fault Message Type, to track the errors from SOAP (status code 002). But, we are not sure on how to track this for all the requested records. Is it possible to track the errors for all the requested records in a singe call using fault message type? For eg if 8 records are successful and 2 are invalid, then we should get 10 records in response 8 for valid and 2 for invalid accordingly.
Please calrify.
Thanks.
Rohit

For eg if 8 records are successful and 2 are invalid, then we should get 10 records in response 8
for valid and 2 for invalid accordingly.
Check if you can modify the WSDL structure to include an error node that would get populated incase of invalid entries....this would mean that you get the success and failure details in the single message....also at the proxy-end make the necessary change in your DT.....may be then you do not need to use the fault message...
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Regarding mandatory fields, Context Objects and Fault Message Types

Hi All,
1) I am creating a structure with fields "Name", "Street" and "City". While creation i want to make "Name" fields as mandatory. Is it possible. If so how to achieve this.
2) What is the purpose of Context Object and in which situation we will use this.
3) What is the purpose of Fault Message Types and in which situation we will use this.
4) I am doing file to file scenario, at sender side i have set the adapter as file and transport protocol as "FTP" . It is asking for "Server", "PORT" and "Login Details". What is this FTP, for this do i need to take any login details. I am totally not aware of FTP, could please explain more about this.
Kindly look into the above points and respond point by point.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Prem.S

Hi prem,
1) I am creating a structure with fields "Name", "Street" and "City". While creation i want to make "Name" fields as mandatory. Is it possible. If so how to achieve this.
give occurence 1..unbounded. for the field name.
2) What is the purpose of Context Object and in which situation we will use this.
If u have multiple receiver system then to determine the reciever u can use context object.....
the alternative of context objetc is X-Path...
Check out these
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/d6/e44fcf98baa24a9686a7643a33f26f/content.htm
/people/prasadbabu.nemalikanti3/blog/2006/09/20/receiver-determination-based-on-the-payload-of-input-dataextended-xpathcontext-object
Here is a scenario where context objects were used for BPM
Technical Context Object in ccBPM
Get the details here:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d6/e44fcf98baa24a9686a7643a33f26f/frameset.htm
Technical Context Objects :
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d6/e44fcf98baa24a9686a7643a33f26f/frameset.htm
A list of the Technical Context Objects names can be found here:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/6e/ff0bf75772457b863ef5d99bc92404/content.htm
Difference between context object and x-path:
diff between context object and x path
3) What is the purpose of Fault Message Types and in which situation we will use this
whenever u want to catch some exception u can use fault message types.Just for a example u r sending some data to SAP system.But due to some reason the R/3 system is down.so in this case if u have implemented fault message ..u can get a error message specifying r/3 is down....
Fault message implementation.
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/11/02/fault-message-types--a-demo-part-1
How to Guide
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/40574601-ec97-2910-3cba-a0fdc10f4dce
4) I am doing file to file scenario, at sender side i have set the adapter as file and transport protocol as "FTP" . It is asking for "Server", "PORT" and "Login Details". What is this FTP, for this do i need to take any login details. I am totally not aware of FTP, could please explain more about this.
there are two transport protocol for File adapter
1)FTP(File transfer protocol)
to know abt FTP check here
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/43/0e16bfd7b021aee10000000a1553f6/content.htm
2)NFS(Network File System)
in server :Enter the host name or IP address of the FTP server.
in PORT:Specify the port number of the FTP server.
The default is the standard port for the FTP server (21)
check here
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/e3/94007075cae04f930cc4c034e411e1/content.htm
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Usage of Fault Message Types

Hi Champs.
Need your help.
I want to know if we can use the Fault message types for the following scenario:-
Any Async-to-Async scenario, with no proxies and with no BPM.
If yes, then how to use it?
By principle, I feel that we can use it for the above case. But if you can let me know in details, that will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Neetesh

Raj,
Fault message types are designed for application-specific errors that occur on the inbound side and that are reported back to the sender or persisted in monitoring.
But if you want for Asynch messages we can use this type of messages only for an asynchronous ABAP server proxy is persisted for monitoring. In the case of asynchronous of Java server proxies, the fault message is part of a negative application acknowledgement.
For detail help please go through the url:http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/55/c5633c3a892251e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
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Inactivation error in Declaring Fault Message type.

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when iam trying to create a message type with refering to data type "ExchangeFaultdata" , and when iam activating the corresponding message interface it says the the Message type that iam using is reffering to a inactive message type.
i tried even activating it , but still it doesnt work.
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Hi All,
i did a small mistake , it troubled .
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Automizing error message with Fault Message Type

(Request F6) (Request F6)
System -
> XI -
> SAP (Doesn't have F6)
 <-- XI <--
 SAP (Doesn't have F6)
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(Problem) When the request message doesn't content sufficient information that is required for respons then the XI team will get the message error and the responsibility to solve the problem. In this scenario it is the XI team that sends the error respons to the System.
(Request (eg. F6) ) (Request (eg. F6))
System -
> XI -
> SAP (Doesn't have F6)
 <-- XI <--
 SAP (Doesn't have F6)
 (Respons: error) (Respons. error)
(Solution) We want to automatize the process so that the error message goes directly to the System via XI. In other words we only want an acknowledgment of the error in XI, we don't want to solve the error since we believe that it is the sender System that is responsible.
We have seen that there is a Fault Message Type in the Message Interface and we are wondering if that is the way to do it? And it that case, how?

Hi,
Fault message is a error meesage. Its like an exception in simple terms. The fault message is used to
store a log for application error. Fault messages is defined in IR.
To give a overview on Fault messages it is mostly used in synchronous communication. When an error
occurs at the inbound side instead of sending the response message back it sends a fault message back
to the sender system to handle error.
Fault Message are Msg type that provided whenever u create a namespace..they are usually used to get
the exception or error mapped which has occured while execution of Application at the sender/receiver
end....
One scenario where i had used it from Soap to RFC where i defined the exception in rfc source code at
r/3 end...I mapped that exception to Fault msg type that i created of my own type(didnt used the
default)..
Fault messages are used to propogate / send back the error message to the calling application. This is
used when there is a failure and the sending system needs to know what the error was. This is more of
catching Application Errors
check this nice blog also
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/11/02/fault-message-types--a-demo-part-1
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/5d/a45c3cff8ca92be10000000a114084/content.htm
Asynchronus RFC exception handling
XI Alerts are not getting triggered from proxy servers
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/ee5bc490-0201-0010-e9b5-
a258cf083bca
/people/sap.user72/blog/2006/01/16/xi-propagation-of-meaningful-error-information-to-soap-client
Fault Message
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Edited by: N V Seshagiri on Feb 29, 2008 12:19 PM

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(b) Can we use Fault Message Type in scenarios except Proxy ? If yes, how?
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Thanks
Anup

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For further details, you may look the SAP documentation:
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Fault Message Types

Hi experts
i have a following scenario. the scenario is SOAP to XI to ECC, and from XI to ECC RFC's are being used. i have doubt about the fault message types?
what are fault message types and why should they be created???
for the above required scenario does"fault message types are to be created or not" plz let me know.
Thanx in advance

Hi,
>>ii have doubt about the fault message types? what are fault message types and why should they be created???
According to help.sap.com http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwpi71/helpdata/EN/dd/b7623c6369f454e10000000a114084/content.htm
Fault message types are designed for application-specific errors that occur at the provider (inbound side) and that are reported back to the sender or persisted in monitoring.
1) In the synchronous case, when an application-specific error occurs on the inbound side, instead of sending a response message back to the sender, the application can send a fault message to handle the error.
2) The fault message of the application for an asynchronous ABAP server proxy is persisted for monitoring. In the case asynchronous of Java server proxies, the fault message is part of a negative application acknowledgment (see Acknowledgments).
>>for the above required scenario does"fault message types are to be created or not" plz let me know.
You can send the exception of RFC in Fault message type. (Provided the RFC raises an exception)
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2. http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/5d/a45c3cff8ca92be10000000a114084/frameset.htm
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Hi,
 I had still doubt & i'm not clear to answers i got yesterday , plz clarify my doubts
 1.what are fault message types and how do we catch any exceptions in file to proxy scenario , can any one give simple example ?
 2.How do we register a non-sap system(FTP SERVER) in SLD ? what steps should we follow? Does any one have blogs regarding this?
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Hi Smitha,
1. what are fault message types and how do we catch any exceptions in file to proxy scenario , can any one give simple example
Fault Message are Msg type that provided whenever u create a namespace..they are usually used to get the exception or error mapped which has occured while execution of Application at the sender/receiver end....
One scenario where i had used it from Soap to RFC where i defined the exception in rfc source code at r/3 end...I mapped that exception to Fault msg type that i created of my own type(didnt used the default)..
Refer this for Fault msg usage in Asynch scenarios.
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/11/02/fault-message-types--a-demo-part-1
Refer this for Fault msg usage in Synch scenarios.
/people/sap.user72/blog/2006/01/16/xi-propagation-of-meaningful-error-information-to-soap-client
Refer this for Handling Exceptions
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/33/4a773f12f14a18e10000000a114084/content.htm
2.How do we register a non-sap system(FTP SERVER) in SLD ? what steps should we follow? Does any one have blogs regarding this?
For this you have to define the 3rd Party TS & BS in sld.
Have a look at the following links...
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/fa/0aad3efa11b300e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
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Guide for Fault Message Type

Hi,
I search a guide for configuration a "Fault Message Type".
I have read, if there is a mapping error, XI will create a error handling in a xml-file.
But I can not find this file.
Can you help me please?
Thanks.
Regards
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Hi Stefan,
Exception can be declared in BPM steps like Transform,send,Block and handled in Exception Branch.
TO know more about BPM and its exception go throught this link,
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/3c/831620a4f1044dba38b370f77835cc/frameset.htm
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