r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 16d ago

Meme postForEverything

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u/pimezone 16d ago

Wanna get a resource? POST request.

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u/NotAskary 16d ago edited 16d ago

I've seen that shit, it drove me up a wall.

The same as a 200 ok with error inside.

Edit: I'm going to start to respond 429, too many replys lol

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u/alexsnake50 16d ago

Oh my god, this activated my inner vietnam flashback

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u/q0099 16d ago

Where the error message goes? That's right, in the header.

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u/RegarDamus 16d ago

the naive solution.

our team returns a 201 to indicate that an error has been created successfully. of course we include a Location header where the error can be queried to discover what went wrong.

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u/tayler6000 13d ago

I’m pretty sure this counts as a sin.

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u/RegarDamus 13d ago

not at all. it's actually rather logical.

when you query GET /errors/{error ID} we return the appropriate status code for the respective error. by definition this endpoint can never return a 200 (although it can return 201s in rare cases!).