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Make API responses consistent #71

Open sethvincent opened 5 years ago

sethvincent commented 5 years ago

There are a few examples of inconsistent api responses.

We should do a look through and see if there are other similar inconsistencies, make a list here, and try to update them all at once. These could later be broken into separate issues if needed.

List:

vgeorge commented 2 years ago

In addition to the above, I believe all API responses should return a JSON object on success and error for consistency. There is a number of endpoints returning just a string "OK".

vgeorge commented 2 years ago

Tagging this as a high priority bug, most endpoints are returning the db query as described above. The API must return a message that doesn't expose the queries.

vgeorge commented 1 year ago

Status update on the items listed by Seth:

  1. We did changes to some endpoints to provide pagination and make responses more consistent. But there are endpoints like /teams that are used by different pages and refactoring those pages doesn't look straightforward at the moment. One possible approach to avoid breaking stuff is to add a paginated param to all list routes that should have pagination. If this parameter is not present or equal to false, the route would return results as in version 1.

  2. A possible approach for avoiding type errors in responses is adding a validation middleware that checks res.body after executing the route logic. This should be fairly easy to accomplish by using Yup schemas, but applying schemas for all routes might be a lot of work. For the moment we should try adding more test coverage with type-checking for routes that might be problematic.

  3. We need to update all occurrences of throw Boom.badRequest(err.message) (like in here) with an appropriate error message like throw Boom.badRequest('Team name is already taken').

cc @batpad @kamicut @willemarcel @LanesGood