What happens when the limits of DocuSign string fields are exceeded?

Question

The DocuSign SOAP API lists various limits on API fields, eg Username can be a maximum of 100 chars, Email can be a maximum of 100 chars. Does this mean that together, the "friendly name" and the email address can be 200 chars?

For Example, would this be okay (ie only an email): ThisIsAReallyLongUserNameWhichWillBeAbout58CharactersLong@gmail.com ?

And this would NOT be okay: ThisIsAReallyLongUserNameWhichWillBeAbout58CharactersLong [ThisIsAReallyLongUserNameWhichWillBeAbout58CharactersLong@gmail.com] ?

And what happens if those (or other) string limits are exceeded? Is an error thrown or is it just truncated? If an error, what kind of error?

Answer 1

Using the Visual Studio debugger, I modified input fields, and checked the results of the fields in the Envelope which are the the most important to our application (which uses the SOAP API):

• Document Name: This gets truncated to 100 characters by the DocuSign System. No error is generated.
• Recipients -> UserName: if this is greater than 100 characters, the DocuSign SOAP API throws an "Unspecified Error"
• Recipients -> Email: This would be truncated to 100 characters by the DocuSign System ... and therefore the above sample would become something like this "ThisIsAReallyLongUserNameWhichWillBeAbout58CharactersLong [ThisIsAReallyLongUserNameWhichWillBeAbou". No error was generated, but it would fail if used as an email address.
• Email Subject: This gets truncated to 100 characters by the DocuSign System. No error is generated.