Hanifi Gunes created DRILL-2205: ----------------------------------- Summary: REST API should have a consistent way of reporting failure in case a request fails Key: DRILL-2205 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-2205 Project: Apache Drill Issue Type: Improvement Components: Client - HTTP Affects Versions: 0.8.0 Reporter: Hanifi Gunes Assignee: Jason Altekruse
In general, REST API does not do a good job reporting failures. Making a bogus HTTP call to create a new storage plugin such like {code} POST [drill-http-server-url]/storage/[storage-plugin-name] {"name":"bogus"} {code} returns HTTP OK with no evidence that the former query failed except the string payload. This is quite a bit of problem for clients that must safely create or update storage plugin before attempting to execute queries as currently there is no unified definitive way to tell if a call succeeds w/o checking the response body. I presume test frameworks heavily rely on this functionality uploading plugin before each test run. As part of DRILL-1357, our greater effort to re-design the REST API, we should make sure to define a consistent error message skeleton that is used across resources. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)