Error

Purpose

An Error describes a condition that prevented all or part of a Call from being successfully processed.

Definition

An Error consists of:

• code — a machine-readable identifier describing the error.
• class — a stable category for handling the error.
• message — a human-readable description of the error.

Initial error classes are:

• contract
• authorization
• unsupported
• dependency
• processing
• internal

Notes

A Dataset may contain zero or more Errors.

The meaning of individual error codes is defined by the component that produces them.