Yes I’d favor leave as is, and at some stage in future convert the error messages to JSON.
On 12 Jan 2015, at 12:22 pm, Barry Warsaw <ba...@list.org> wrote: On Jan 11, 2015, at 06:23 AM, Andrew Stuart wrote: > Happy to do so if you like. Would you mind pointing me in the direction of > some instructions for filing bugs please? > > FWIW I’d probably favor a REST API that is behaving improperly by returning > plain text error responses (i.e. the current situation) rather than a REST > API that returns application/json content type for valid responses and > text/plain for errors. Once that gets baked into release 1 it’ll be > challenging to correct back to application/json later because people will > write clients to expect text/plain for errors. > > It’s a whole lot easier conceptually to deal with a REST API that always > returns the same content-type regardless of the outcome of the API call. > > Some REST tools don’t have any mechanism for defining mixed response type > APIs which leads to some weird outcomes when querying successfully versus > getting errors. In short, I’d leave as-is and eventually turn the error text > into json, but obviously Barry you should say what you want. I think at least the Content-Type should be accurate. Your response sounds a little contradictory, but let me see if I can summarize it. From a practicality view point, you prefer the current implementation, even if it isn't conceptually pure, at least for now. That works for me because then I don't have to worry about changing anything. :) I'm open to re-evaluating that in some future Mailman release. Cheers, -Barry _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/andrew.stuart%40supercoders.com.au Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
