Handling Response Serialization Failures

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Handling Response Serialization Failures #386

Closed dlemire60 closed 1 year ago

dlemire60 commented 2 years ago

If the consumer successfully completes processing a request, but experiences a failure when serializing its response to the producer (due to a bug in the serialization library, etc.), how should it respond to the producer?

Would this be considered an Internal Error, or something else since the request itself was completed correctly?
Is it acceptable to use JSON as the format for this response even if the corresponding request was not originally serialized using JSON?

(source: HII software team)

dlemire60 commented 2 years ago

Discussed at 8/10 working meeting. Consensus was that confidence was low that a consumer would successfully process a command and then experience a failure serializing the response, but if it happened it should be considered an internal error and return an appropriate failure / error code. @dlemire60 took action to prepare a corresponding PR.

dlemire60 commented 1 year ago

This issue is addressed by PR #402 , which has been merged. Closing issue.