Questions tagged [error-messages]
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Standard error codes vs custom error codes in C
I am working on improving the code quality and portability of my C library, specifically a ring buffer implementation, that will be used in larger applications. I have encountered a dilemma regarding ...
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Handling resource not found
I have an endpoint GET home/{homeId}/laptops . Its response is :
{"homeId":string,"laptops":string[]}
If homeID does not exist I can return '404 Not found' OR an empty response ...
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log levels and stdout vs stderr
I'm writing an app which uses a logger with different logging levels (info, debug, warning, error, etc.); but - I'm used to the idiom of writing program output to stdout and error information to ...
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microservice custom error messages
We use microservices and spring boot in our saas (multi tenant) projects. We will proceed through the schema per tenant. We manage the error messages we show to the users through a database. We are ...
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API: should a problem with data be announced by a HTTP code or in the response body?
After years of (amateur, dirty) personal API development I finally decided to follow some best practices.
My problem: the API may have problems, say, retrieving some data. It will gracefully handle ...
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Error messages and security concerns
What is considered good practice for application security wise when returning errors from a backend API?
I have inherited a project with a lot of technical debt, which I intend to improve.
One ...
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Is having 3 return types for a function, in order to facilitate error handling a bad idea?
I have a function which returns either true/false, each return plays nicely with the function name: isOnline, however, there are cases in which I want to throw an error inside of it. Maybe the status ...
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Best way to display errors from a model to the user?
I'm developing an app (using Flutter) that has a model that contains most of the business logic, and a view that displays the user interface. The model can call notifyListeners to inform the view that ...
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Is there a general solution to the problem of "sudden unexpected bursts of errors" in software?
Let me explain what I mean.
I have made a complex, highly polished over years PHP framework/library for my own use. I very aggressively log the smallest notice and immediately deal with it as soon as ...
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SOLID way to handle user input error (I18N & error context problematic)
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I come on this topic after it has been recommended to me on my previous closed SO topic (see closed one : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64338968/how-to-effectively-manage-a-large-...
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Why am I getting complex errors even with simple C++ code?
I started to play with C++ recently. One of the difficulties I have quite often is when the compiler tells that there is an issue with the types: more often than not, those compiler errors look ...
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How to handle errors from back-end in front-end and different languages?
I have a rest api and a reactjs front end, in some cases, the api will send an error to the front end and I need to display that error. My app will support multiple languages, so the error must be ...
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Should REST API rate limiting specifics be told to the caller?
I have an REST API, which has a rate limit of 1 query per IP per 5 seconds. When the user tries to call the API too often, I respond with the HTTP status code 429 Too Many Requests and a JSON message.
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Managing error code and error message mapping
As part of a game engine I am writing in cython, one of the challenges I am facing is creating a consistent interface for error handling that works at the C and python levels of my code. I am ...
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Should error codes in JSON be integers or strings?
I'm designing a backend webservice, and when an error occurs I'm returning it as a JSON to the frontend. This JSON contains an error code, which the frontend maps to an localized string and shows that ...
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