[Hawkular-dev] [metrics] Consistent error replies from REST API

[Thomas Segismont]

I'm fine with something simple to begin with.

Really, the purpose of my email was to recall we're running on top of a 
container+framework and that application errors are not the only ones.

Le 06/03/2015 10:37, Viliam Rockai a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for opening this issue again. I think we should follow a standard
> here. Let me just copy-paste from my last email (Thread "REST ideas"):
>
> Another REST issue we should agree on: The standard for error responses.
> I've found, that there are several standards we can follow (or create
> our own):
> http://stackoverflow.com/a/14538774/3252949
>
> In my opinion it's fine to stick with the JSON API:
> http://jsonapi.org/format/#errors
>
> or stick with even simpler google style guide:
> https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/jsoncstyleguide.xml?showone=error#error
>
>
> Viliam
>
> On Thu, 2015-03-05 at 18:32 +0100, Thomas Segismont wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There's a growing portion of application code in the metrics REST API
>> which returns errors (with whichever HTTP status) in the following form:
>>
>> ====
>> {"errorMsg": "blah"}
>> ====
>>
>> Whether this format is nice or suitable is not the purpose of this
>> message. I just want to draw your attention to the fact that being
>> consistent regarding error reporting is important.
>>
>> In this regard, I've added a new ExceptionMapper for
>> org.jboss.resteasy.spi.ReaderException[2] instances. So now, not only
>> application errors conform to the format above, but also errors coming
>> from payload parsing.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Thomas
>>
>> [1]
>> http://docs.jboss.org/resteasy/docs/3.0.9.Final/userguide/html_single/#builtinException
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