Subject area
Understanding errors
What errors look like, what each status code means and how to tell 401, 403 and 404 apart.
Topics in this subject area
- 1.The error format
Which fields an error response has, and what a client should branch on.
- 2.Map of status codes
Every status code with the situations in which CDMS returns it: 200, 400, 401, 403, 404, 409, 413, 422, 500, 503.
- 3.401, 403 or 404?
The three codes that are mixed up most often, as a decision path: when to renew, when to give up, when the object is invisible.
- 4.Getting validation errors into the form
How a client maps the collected violations of a 422 to the form fields, including nested paths.