[IPP] job-error-action (in NODRIVER) interaction with ipp-attribute-fidelity

[IPP] job-error-action (in NODRIVER) interaction with ipp-attribute-fidelity

Michael Sweet msweet at msweet.org
Thu Feb 6 22:09:52 UTC 2020


Sean,

job-error-action only applies to processing jobs.  ipp-attribute-fidelity is used at time of job creation - if the check fails, no job is created and so job-error-action would not apply.


> On Feb 6, 2020, at 4:11 PM, Sean Kau via ipp <ipp at pwg.org> wrote:
> 
> We've defined job-error-action in NODRIVER (https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/wd/wd-ippnodriver20-20200204-rev.pdf).  ipp-attribute-fidelity was created in STD92 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/std92) and states:
> 
>    o  If the Client supplies 'true', the Printer MUST reject the request
>       if the Client supplies unsupported Job Template attributes.
> 
> job-error-action states that it applies when "an error is encountered in a document during processing of the job" and includes an option to "suspend-job".
> 
> Does job-error-action only pertain to issues with document format?  Should ipp-attribute-fidelity take precedence for issues with the Job Ticket?
> 
> As I read it, one possible (and undesirable) implementation of these two attributes would be that we could suspend a job in response to a bad job ticket.
> 
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