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minus-square@madcaesar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink14•4 months agoHere I am preferring 200, with success boolean / message string… Iike HTTP errors codes for real fuck up’s, if I see 500 somethings fucked in the app, otherwise a standardised json response body seems way easier
minus-square@fuzzzerd@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish21•4 months agoWhat about both? User supplies bad input? HTTP 400 with response body json describing the error in a standard format?
minus-squarebountygiver [any]linkfedilinkEnglish7•4 months agowhen you are too lazy to ask your request library to not throw exception on non-200 responses.
minus-square@dan@upvote.aulinkfedilink5•4 months agoThrowing exceptions is fine since errors are an exceptional circumstance (not expected during normal use of the app), and you probably want errors to follow a different code path so that they can be logged, alerts triggered if needed, etc.
Here I am preferring 200, with success boolean / message string…
Iike HTTP errors codes for real fuck up’s, if I see 500 somethings fucked in the app, otherwise a standardised json response body seems way easier
What about both? User supplies bad input? HTTP 400 with response body json describing the error in a standard format?
when you are too lazy to ask your request library to not throw exception on non-200 responses.
Throwing exceptions is fine since errors are an exceptional circumstance (not expected during normal use of the app), and you probably want errors to follow a different code path so that they can be logged, alerts triggered if needed, etc.