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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 5, 2026

Add option to hide parameters structure from error messages

Hi Team

It is requested a way to remove or disable the rule properties/parameters to be fully displayed on error messages for HTDS responses 

During few attempts it is possible to get all properties/parameters needed to complete the request. What is not appropriated to a unknown user to have this information. 

Tests made from our devs show how easy you can get the full structure of a ruleset, with only 3 attempts 

 

POST /DecisionService/rest/xxxxx/1.1

Step 1 - without parameter

paramètre : {} résultat : { "code": 400, "message": ....., "details": "Error when executing the ruleset /xxx/1.0/rxxx.\n..... because \"this.engineData.demande\" is null\n\tin file 'MIGRATED_RULE', at line 9, column 1\n\njava.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke \"xxx.getProduit()\" because \"this.engineData.demande\" is null\n\n", "errorCode": "GBRXH0529E" }

 

Step 2: it was added the parameter obtained from the engine error messages with the information

"this.engineData.demande"

paramètre :

{

"demande": {}

}

résultat:

{

"code": 400,

"message": "An error occurred during the execution of the ruleset.....",

"details": "Error when executing the ruleset... invoke \"xxx.Produit.getNom()\" because the return value of \"xxx.getProduit()\" is null\n\tin file 'MIGRATED_RULE', at line 9, column 1\n\njava.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke \"xxx.Produit.getNom()\" because the return value of \"xxx.getProduit()\" is null\n\n",

"errorCode": "GBRXH0529E"

}

Step 3: It was added an additional parameter to ""this.engineData.demande"", any name.

paramètre:

{

"demande": {

"toto":""

}

}

résultat:

{

"code": 500,

"message": "An error occurred during the execution of the ruleset. Make...",

"details": "Error when extracting the ruleset parameter value from the request.\nUnrecognized field \"toto\" (class xxxxx.test), not marked as ignorable (4 known properties: \"produit\", \"produit2\", \"produit3\", \"produit4\"])\n at [Source: UNKNOWN; byte offset: #UNKNOWN] (through reference chain: xxxx.test[\"toto\"])\n",

"errorCode": "GBRXH0504E"

}

Now we have the list of expected parameter names in "request":

not marked as ignorable (4 known properties: \"produit\", \"produit2\", \"produit3\", \"produit4\"])

And we can continue until we have all the names (and types of the parameters).

 

It is requested a feature where we can disable or remove these error messages, as reducing logs level did not changed this behaviour. 

 

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Antony Viaud
    Jun 4, 2026

    Hello,

    we're currently not considering any change to the HTDS response. Access control to prevent unknown users to 'test' the decision service and retrieve error messages needs to be implemented in front of HTDS.

  • Admin
    Antony Viaud
    Mar 16, 2026

    Hello,

    as mentioned in Idea 285, https://dba.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ODMNS-I-285, the Hosted Transparent Decision Service web application (hosted by default on /DecisionService context root) is not secured. Securing it can be done at the application server level or using proxies / network stacks.

    Which flavor of ODM are you using (ODM on-prem / ON on Kubernete) ?