C Main API Message Handling

When your program calls the API, system messages and error messages are generated. Some of those messages are returned by the Essbase Server, and others are internal to the API. Your program must process these messages in some way, and if there is an error which causes the operation in progress to abort, the user may need to be informed.

This section explains the API's message handling scheme, and then shows what C developers can do to implement custom message processing in their programs: