+1 we should use 422. [1] https://www.quora.com/Which-HTTP-code-is-best-suited-for-validation-errors-400-or-422 [2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1959947/whats-an-appropriate-http-status-code-to-return-by-a-rest-api-service-for-a-val
On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 3:22 PM Uvindra Dias Jayasinha <uvin...@wso2.com> wrote: > I think 422 is the most appropriate given your use case of validating if a > message matches a given schema. So you can receive a valid JSON or XML(it's > not malformed hence it is not a bad request(400)), but it may not match > with the message schema definition you are matching against. > > The specs dont seem to talk about processing from the perspective of the > response. I guess you can use the same code used for the request. > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 14:54, Shalki Wenushika <wenush...@wso2.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> This is related to the mail thread subjected as “[Architecture]API schema >> based request/response validator for Microgateway”. I’m validating >> requests/responses coming to the microgateway and send error messages to >> the client if the request/response is invalid. >> >> When a client sends a request to the microgateway if the request is >> invalid I’m sending an error message with the HTTP status code >> 422(Unprocessable entity) to the client. And also I’m doing the response >> validation. If the response coming from the backend is invalid I send an >> error message to the client. I need to know what will be the most >> appropriate HTTP status code to be included in the error if the response is >> invalid. >> >> Thank you! >> >> -- >> >> *Shalki Wenushika* >> *Software Engineering Intern* >> WSO2 (University of Moratuwa) >> *mobile *: *+94 716792399* | *email *: >> <http://c.content.wso2.com/signatures/wso2-signature-general.png> >> wenush...@wso2.com >> >> >> >> > > -- > Regards, > Uvindra > > Mobile: 777733962 > -- *Harsha Kumara* Associate Technical Lead, WSO2 Inc. Mobile: +94775505618 Email: hars...@wso2.coim Blog: harshcreationz.blogspot.com GET INTEGRATION AGILE Integration Agility for Digitally Driven Business
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