"error" field in JSON response

[iambenkay]

Good day. Nice work you're doing here. I was going through the documentation and I noticed you add the error field to every JSON response. I want to know why exactly. because I assume that errors can be conveyed with appropriate error codes (status codes greater than or equal to 400). I believe that is the semantic use of those status codes. Is there a special reason you set the error field?

[MartinsOnuoha]

@iambenkay Thanks for the observation. Yeah, there's a reason, simplicity really. Per the JSON:API specification, dealing with errors would require the using the Error Object property that would returns an array of error objects containing the status, code and detail fields, this would be the ideal design for REST apis like this one, however, for simplicity instead of having the entire Error array object, I decided to make it root level field and give it the value of it's child property status (true, false) - so it's readable enough.

so instead of having this:

{
   "error": [{ "status": false, "code":  401, "details": "unauthorized" }, {...}, {...}],
   "data": []
}

we have this:

{
  "error": false,
  "data": []
}

It's mostly a design for simplicity than architecture

[iambenkay]

Alright. thanks for clearing that up

[iambenkay]

I'll be closing this issue now