Need help in returning error condition from web service

Question

Hi,
I need one help regarding webservice. Currently my web service is returning "true" value when it works fine without any issues but it returns "false" when any any error is encountered. So my question is, can we return error instead of string "false". I dont know how to return exact error from webservice. If you any idea then please mail me.
Below is a small code snippet:
System.out.println("User "+ userFullName + usrKey + " end date has been updated to "+usrEndDate +" in IDM DB");
result = true;
catch (tcAPIException e) {
log.error("Error in finding the user" + e.getMessage());
result = false;
} catch (tcUserNotFoundException e) {
log.error("Error in getting user status" + e.getMessage());
result = false;
} catch (tcStaleDataUpdateException e) {
log.error("Error in updating end date of user" + e.getMessage());
result = false;
}catch (Exception e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
result =false;
return result;
Here i want to return error instead of false. Can we do that?
Thanks,
Kalpana.

Answer 1

instead of storing false store below
use result=e1.getMessage();
Edited by: Nishith Nayan on Feb 23, 2012 8:07 PM