Access Datastream Web Services Error Messages

When you make a historical data request from Datastream™ Web Services from Refinitiv™, sometimes the request returns an error instead of data. Use this workflow to access Datastream Web Services error messages.

The history function returns errors in the matlab.net.http.ResponseMessage object. For example, suppose that you enter an invalid security name for the sec input argument. The resulting output has this form:

d = 

  ResponseMessage with properties:

    StatusLine: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK'
    StatusCode: OK
        Header: [1×6 matlab.net.http.HeaderField]
          Body: [1×1 matlab.net.http.MessageBody]
     Completed: 0

Access the Body property using dot notation.

d.Body

ans = 

  MessageBody with properties:

             Data: [1×1 struct]
          Payload: []
      ContentType: [1×1 matlab.net.http.MediaType]
    ContentCoding: [0×0 string]

To access the text of the error message, access the nested structure DataResponse stored in the Data property.

d.Body.Data.DataResponse

ans = 

  struct with fields:

    AdditionalResponses: []
          DataTypeNames: []
         DataTypeValues: [3×1 struct]
                  Dates: []
            SymbolNames: []
                    Tag: ''

Then, access the SymbolValues field in the DataTypeValues structure array.

d.Body.Data.DataResponse.DataTypeValues(1).SymbolValues

ans = 

  struct with fields:

    Currency: []
      Symbol: 'YYY'
        Type: 0
       Value: '$$ER: E100,INVALID CODE OR EXPRESSION ENTERED'

Fix your code based on the error message in the Value field.