Washington State Legislative Web Services

Detailed Service Information

This site was last updated: 11/13/2006.

This page provides detailed information about each of the Legislative Web Services (LWS) as well as any relevant technical information. In order to report a problem, receive change notifications, submit a change request or submit an inquiry please email us at WebRequest@leg.wa.gov .

Service Information

Error Handling

Service Information

Data dictionary is located in Web Service Data Dictionary.

All services are available at http://wslwebservices.leg.wa.gov/

Service Name	Service Description	Interface Diagram	Class Diagram
Amendment Service	Information on amendments submitted to the rostrum for consideration during a floor session by the House or Senate.	Diagrams\AmendmentServiceDiagram.jpg	Diagrams\AmendmentClassDiagram.jpg
Committee Meeting Service	Information on House and Senate standing committee meetings.	Diagrams\CommitteeMeetingServiceDiagram.jpg	Diagrams\CommitteeMeetingClassDiagram.jpg
Committee Action Service	Information on House and Senate committee actions.	Diagrams\CommitteeActionServiceDiagram.jpg	Diagrams\LegislationClassDiagram.jpg Diagrams\CommitteeReferralClassDiagram.jpg Diagrams\CommitteeActionClassDiagram.jpg
Committee Service	Information on House and Senate standing committees.	Diagrams\CommitteeServiceDiagram.jpg	Diagrams\LegislativeEntityClassDiagram.jpg; Diagrams\MemberClassDiagram.jpg
Legislation Service	Information on legislation considered during a legislative biennium.This includes meta data about the legislation, its status in the legislative process, and when it has been heard in committee.	Diagrams\LegislationServiceDiagram.jpg	Diagrams\LegislationClassDiagram.jpg; Diagrams\AmendmentClassDiagram.jpg ; Diagrams\CompanionClassDiagram.jpg ; Diagrams\HearingClassDiagram.jpg ; Diagrams\LegislativeStatusClassDiagram.jpg ; Diagrams\RcwCiteAffectedClassDiagram.jpg ; Diagrams\SessionLawClassDiagram.jpg ; Diagrams\SponsorClassDiagram.jpg
Legislative Document Service	Information on available legislative documents on the Legislature�s web site.	Diagrams\LegislativeDocumentServiceDiagram.jpg	Diagrams\LegislativeDocumentClassDiagram.jpg
Rcw Cite Affected Service	Information on the affect of legislation being considered in a specific biennium on the Revised Code of Washington.	Diagrams\RcwCiteAffectedServiceDiagram.jpg
Session Law Service	Information on the legislation that have passed the legislature.	Diagrams\SessionLawServiceDiagram.jpg	Diagrams\SessionLawClassDiagram.jpg; Diagrams\LegislationClassDiagram.jpg
Sponsor Service	Information on the entities that can sponsor legislation for a specific biennium.	Diagrams\SponsorServiceDiagram.jpg	Diagrams\MemberClassDiagram.jpg; Diagrams\LegislativeEntityClassDiagram.jpg

Error Handling

All services are designed to perform input validation prior to any business logic being executed. Exceptions � in the form of SOAP Faults � will be thrown for any invalid input. Examples of invalid input are:

� Null or empty input strings

� Invalid biennium strings (not in the format �2005-06�)

Exceptions will also be thrown for any service where a singular object (vs. a collection of objects) is expected to be returned but is not found. An example would be searching for legislation information on a specific bill.

It is strongly recommended that client applications use good coding principles by surrounding the code that invokes the service with a try-catch block. This will ensure that any exceptions can be handled gracefully and will also provide detailed information about the error which will help with troubleshooting.