How are HTTP status codes handled with Backendless? Is there a way to force something other than 200?
An example would be the following: If I perform a request where no record can be found the response is empty but the status code is still 200. I would expect something like a 404.
I may misunderstand the whole concept but different status codes would be useful for me for displaying error states in a third-party tool.
Thank you in advance!
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I assume you’re talking the API routes that are built into Backendless (rather than your own API services you develop and deploy into the platform).
In most cases when the server handled a request and it resulted in an error, you’d be getting the following data structure back:
{
"message":error-message,
"code":error-code
}
The HTTP status code is always 200, however, the error-code value would be one from the following document:
https://backendless.com/docs/rest/backendless_error_codes.html
Thanks again for the quick reply, Mark!
I was talking about the built-in API routes. However, I also tried the following API service in an attempt to get a different result:
Like you said this only returns the code in the body too.
I want to integrate Backendless with Bravo Studio but there the only way to show errors is through status codes.
I would be happy if I could continue using Backendless so if you have any other ideas please let me know
It should be like this:
However, I just tried it and I am always getting status code 400 (the message and code do arrive as expected). I opened an internal ticket to investigate this (BKNDLSS-26525)
Regards,
Mark
Thanks for clarifying and investigating!
Hello, @app.monster.
This update is currently on a test server. As soon as it gets to the production server, we will inform you about it.
Best Regards, Nikita.
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Hello @app.monster
We’ve just updated cloud servers with a fix for the issue you described above. Could you kindly let us know whether fix works for you well?
Regards,
Inna