Extracting detail from a WCF FaultException response

Question

I am successfully working with a third party soap service. I have added a service reference to a soap web service which has auto generated the classes.

When an error oc

Answer 1

Here's a few methods I've found of extracting that detailed exception information from FaultExceptions

Get the String Contents of a Single Element

catch (FaultException e)
{
    var errorElement = XElement.Parse(e.CreateMessageFault().GetReaderAtDetailContents().ReadOuterXml());
    var errorDictionary = errorElement.Elements().ToDictionary(key => key.Name.LocalName, val => val.Value);
    var errorMessage = errorDictionary?["ErrorMessage"];
}

Example Output:

Organization does not exist.

Get the String Contents of a All Details as a Single String

catch (FaultException e)
{
    var errorElement = XElement.Parse(e.CreateMessageFault().GetReaderAtDetailContents().ReadOuterXml());
    var errorDictionary = errorElement.Elements().ToDictionary(key => key.Name.LocalName, val => val.Value);
    var errorDetails = string.Join(";", errorDictionary);
}

Example Output:

[ErrorMessage, Organization does not exist.];[EventCode, 3459046134826139648];[Parameters, ]

Get the String Contents of a Everything as an XML string

var errorElement = XElement.Parse(e.CreateMessageFault().GetReaderAtDetailContents().ReadOuterXml());
var xmlDetail = (string)errorElement;

Example Output:

    Organization does not exist.
    3459046134826139648