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Teosz14106yAnd this one from the documentation. A required property (Igen -> required: yes) with a fucking TODO. And no, that asterisk doesn't point to any description either.
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gothran1026y@Teosz I can relate to that.. Once upon a time (not so long ago) I've been working with a service which returns "going well" in case of a success and "default response" or *a handful of business errors which they didn't want to list for me so that I could implement proper error handling* otherwise. Of course it was not supposed to be propagated to PROD like this but.. who cares
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Teosz14106y@gothran
At least they gave me a sample request so now I've found the mistake, and once the structure of the request is alright they give proper error messages. But would have been good if I didn't have to inspect my input line by line just to find out that one property is an array of objects instead of an object that's stated in the docs. -
I like that it's a capital E. Someone actually took the time to make sure it's capitalized instead of providing any other info.
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msgsumar76yError: This shit is quite common for alot of systems. May be a catch to have you get into an API Support Contract and in Open Source systems it is less...
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The most annoying error message is still: There was an issue. Please contact your administrator.
I'm the closest you'll get of an admin. Tell me what went fucking wrong! -
nCore I see,
shivers I get,
Evry dark dream returns,
and a life of regret.
The Gekko stirs,
shedding it's skins,
the Elements unite,
a dark dream begins.
Credit: a guy I know. -
I regularly have to work with apis coded by others that throw a 500 status on any error, and the response message contains the actual error code but no description of why.
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That's a pretty fucking useful error description right there.
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