[OAI-implementers] error questions

[Simeon Warner]

I disagree. Arguments that are not 'required', 'optional' or 'exclusive'
are 'illegal' and should generate badArgument errors. This is how I read
the spec for badArgument:

http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html#ErrorConditions
"The request includes illegal arguments, is missing required arguments,
includes a repeated argument, or values for arguments have an illegal
syntax."

Cheers,
Simeon


On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, lfeng wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong. The arguments specified for the verbs are 'required' 
> but may not be the only arguments being passed to the provider. I doubt the 
> badArgument error applies in this case. If verb=Identify is a valid argument 
> and no other 'required' arguments is missing/dup/illegal, then the server 
> should ignor the other arguments (or one may implement their own additional 
> "features" using extra arguments).
> 
> Louis
> Dept. CS, KSU
> 
> 
> >===== Original Message From comyn@utk.edu =====
> >   I know the protocol states that a single error is enough to trigger
> >an error response but it seems to imply that all codes should be
> >returned.
> >   If in the case of the illegal argument, where a value like
> >test=zzzzzz is sent, should this short circuit the testing process
> >and jump straight to the error response without testing from, until,
> >set, etc., since someone could be trying to break something?
> >
> >  Should a multiple argument error be "badArgument" and then should we
> >indicate which word was repeated?  (example below)
> >
> >   repository/oai?verb=Identify&set=set1&from=2000-01-01&set=set2
> >
> >errors:
> ><error code="badArgument">The query contained an illegal
> >argument--set</error>
> ><error code="badArgument">The query contained an illegal
> >argument--from</error>
> ><error code="badArgument">The query contained an illegal
> >argument--set</error>
> >
> >  Are these all of the codes or should there be another one because
> >Identify should have no other parameters?
> >
> >--Paul Cummins
> >Univ. of Tenn. Library
> >
> >
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