How-to: Inspect Request Response XML and Error Call Stack

Description

Use the document queue to inspect the XML data being sent to and from the Mobile devices. Also, error call stacks can be found here.

Overview

Use case

When development it can be very useful to inspect the XML to know:

• Has the code taken effect?
• Which values are available in the request you are reading

Flow

The nature of Web services is as follows:

• Mobile always initiates the communication with a Request
• BC Responds

How to inspect mobile communication

Go to the "Mobile Document Queue"-page.

• Select Document 
  1. Select Document > Show Request XML
     or
  2. Select Document > Show Response XML

The request is likely most interesting for development. The request will give you an overview of which values are available to you and what they are named.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<request name="PostAdhocRegistration" created="2020-02-14T15:24:24+01:00" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Dynamics/Mobile/2007/04/Documents/Request">
  <requestData name="PostAdhocRegistration">
    <MyDate>14-02-2020</MyDate>
    <MyText>2</MyText>
    <MyDecimal>4</MyDecimal>
    <MyDateStep>14-02-2020</MyDateStep>
    <MyTextStep>2</MyTextStep>
    <MyDecimalStep>4</MyDecimalStep>
    <RegistrationType>MyUnplanned</RegistrationType>
  </requestData>
</request>

How to inspect the error call stack

Go to the "Mobile Document Queue"-page.

• Select the latest Document with Status = Error
  
• Select Document > Show Response XML
  or
• Select Process >  Process Document

You can also re-run the process and get the error on the screen

Select Process >  Process Document

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