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Faults

Faults are fatal, call-level errors. When a fault occurs, nothing is processed because the entire call was invalid—for example, there was an incorrect ZOQL statement, an invalid authentication, or a server error.

The following fault elements are returned if an error occurs when processing certain requests.

Fault	Description
ApiFault	This is the base fault. It has a fault code (FaultCode) and a fault message (FaultMessage). The fault code points to the error code. Once you make a call, if an error occurs, it throws an exception. Catch that exception so you know what happened. The fault message is a user-readable string giving details on what error happened.
InvalidQueryLocatorFault	This is generated when a query locator is invalid or has expired.
InvalidTypeFault	This is generated when an invalid type, unknown type, or type not supported in the specified version of the API has been encountered.
InvalidValueFault	This is generated when an invalid value has been encountered.
LoginFault	This is generated when the user name and/or password are invalid. (Other conditions will apply, but they aren’t implemented yet.)
MalformedQueryFault	This is generated when a query string has invalid format or syntax , or exceeds the maximum allowed length of a query statement (10,000 characters).
UnexpectedErrorFault	This occurs when there is an unexpected problem with the call.

Faults

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