Errors¶

The CA will send all errors as RFC7807 problem documents. acme4j parses these documents and provides a Problem representation of them.

The simplest way to handle the problem is to log the result of its .toString() method. It contains a summary of all important fields.

There are other methods that return machine- and human-readable details and subproblems. With .asJSON() you can also get a JSON representation of the full problem document, in case there are non-standard fields.

Errors while Ordering¶

If your challenge has failed, you can retrieve the cause of the failure with Challenge.getError() or Order.getError(). It returns an Optional containing further details why the challenge has failed.

Exceptions¶

AcmeServerException and its subclasses provide a getProblem() method that returns the Problem that caused the exception. The exception message also contains a summary of the problem.