Provisioning Schema::errorContext

Element that encapsulates an error stack for one or more errors returned by a response to a request. This element is part of the provisioning schema of Microsoft Provisioning Framework (MPF).

Whenever a provisioning engine receives an error, it generates an errorContext node and returns it to either the calling procedure or (for try-catch blocks) to the procedures in the catch node. How the engine constructs the errorContext node depends on the error format.

If the error is a text string, the engine simply assigns the string to /errorContext/@description.
If the error is XML, the engine parses the code to extract the error description, then assigns this string to /errorContext/@description. It then executes an XSL transformation to translate the error nodes to corresponding child nodes of errorContext.

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Example XML Request

Text error:

<!-- Non-XML error -->
Server not available.

<!-- Transformation performed by provisioning engine -->
<errorContext description='Server not available.'/>

XML error:

<!-- Original XML error -->
<errorDescription description='Server not available.'>
  <Fault>
	<faultData/>
  </Fault>
</errorDescription>

<!-- Transformation performed by provisioning engine -->
<errorContext description='Server not available.'>
  <errorDescription>
	<Fault>
	<faultData/>
	</Fault>
  </errorDescription>
</errorContext>

Applies To