Re: [core] Review of draft-fossati-core-coap-problem-02

Christian Amsüss <christian@amsuess.com> Tue, 07 April 2020 12:32 UTC

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From: Christian Amsüss <christian@amsuess.com>
To: Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com>, Thomas Fossati <Thomas.Fossati@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [core] Review of draft-fossati-core-coap-problem-02
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Hello Thomas and Jim,

On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 10:36:10AM +0000, Thomas Fossati wrote:
> > [JLS] Given that I would want to test the problem info being returned,
> > getting unexpected errors with information is useful for me.  This is
> > the basic method that I have been using for my ACE server where a
> > diagnostic string with the problem details is returned, but a stack
> > trace is included in unexpected conditions (i.e. the code threw an
> > exception).
> 
> I am certainly not opposed to that.  Happy to call it "diagnostic"?

Are these cases not independent cases anyway?

If there is a known condition, its problem-detail is returned. On
exceptions, there is no problem-detail but a stack-trace (without a
content format).

Of course, a framework might create an entry for (ns=my-framework,
type=0, title="Exception in resource handler", response-code=5.00,
coapp-roblem-details-extension = [* stackframe])

But as I understand that use case, you don't need both simultaneously.

KR
c

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