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kevinswiber / siren

Structured Interface for Representing Entities, super-rad hypermedia
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Mix of Success and Failure - Reporting Associated Errors #61

Closed wooliet closed 9 years ago

wooliet commented 9 years ago

I'm looking for some guidance on formatting a correct response for the following scenario:

A new entity has been successfully created. However, there were errors associated with its creation, and the user should be made aware.

I would like to fill in the entities array as usual, but also include something indicating there were issues and provide a collection of error messages. Is there a recommended response format for this situation?

apsoto commented 9 years ago

@wooliet this is better discussed on the Google Group

In my experience, I haven't come across a partial success response. The closest I've come to it is returning a 203 status. In that case I added a 'warning' header to the regular 200 response.

If you want to provide some entities that are the error messages, check out the discussion here #5

wooliet commented 9 years ago

Thanks @apsoto, a new thread has been created here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/siren-hypermedia/P93zreIxfMI