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DotNetHypermedia / DotNetHypermedia

Hal media type server side library for .NET
MIT License
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Dealing with error messages #14

Open wis3guy opened 9 years ago

wis3guy commented 9 years ago

I was working on my own HAL based api and got tangled up in dealing with error messages i want to feed back to the consumer. While looking around, i found this: https://github.com/blongden/vnd.error

Is this something we would want to incorporate in this library? I can imagine that during request handling, or formatting, an exception is thrown. This could be a way to return them to the consumer, whilst remaining a well-formed response a client could deal with.

Thoughts?

JakeGinnivan commented 9 years ago

If we support a richer error format we need to make sure that we provide a serialiser and also integrate media formatters into the different libraries we support.

If we do want to do this, having rich errors from our serialisers from the start would be a good idea and give us the flexibility to introduce this down the track.

Worth keeping this in mind