Error responses

API description

Every response is JSON.

If the HTTP status is not OK (<200 or >=400), the response contains a JSON mapping, with the following attributes:

  • code: matches the HTTP status code (e.g 400)
  • errno: stable application-level error number (e.g. 109)
  • error: string description of error type (e.g. "Bad request")
  • message: context information (e.g. "Invalid request parameters")
  • info: online resource (e.g. URL to error details)
  • details: additional details (e.g. list of validation errors)

Example response

{
    "code": 412,
    "errno": 114,
    "error": "Precondition Failed",
    "message": "Resource was modified meanwhile",
    "info": "https://server/docs/api.html#errors",
}

Refer yourself to the set of errors codes.

Retry-After indicators

A Retry-After header will be added to error responses (>=500), telling the client how many seconds it should wait before trying again.

Retry-After: 30

Precondition errors

As detailed in the timestamps section, it is possible to add concurrency control using ETag request headers.

When a concurrency error occurs, a 412 Precondition Failed error response is returned.

Additional information about the record currently stored on the server will be provided in the details field:

{
    "code": 412,
    "errno": 114,
    "error":"Precondition Failed"
    "message": "Resource was modified meanwhile",
    "details": {
        "existing": {
            "last_modified": 1436434441550,
            "id": "00dd028f-16f7-4755-ab0d-e0dc0cb5da92",
            "title": "Original title"
        }
    },
}

Validation errors

When multiple validation errors occur on a request, the first one is presented in the message.

The full list of validation errors is provided in the details field.

{
    "code": 400,
    "errno": 109,
    "error": "Bad Request",
    "message": "Invalid posted data",
    "info": "https://server/docs/api.html#errors",
    "details": [
        {
            "description": "42 is not a string: {'name': ''}",
            "location": "body",
            "name": "name"
        }
    ]
}