• @madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    129 days ago

    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

    • @fuzzzerd@programming.dev
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      219 days ago

      What about both? User supplies bad input? HTTP 400 with response body json describing the error in a standard format?

      • bountygiver [any]
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        79 days ago

        when you are too lazy to ask your request library to not throw exception on non-200 responses.

        • @dan@upvote.au
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          59 days ago

          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.