Detail HTTP status codes to use for various error conditions#354
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Detail HTTP status codes to use for various error conditions#354
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Note: the original name for 422 was "Unprocessable Entity", but it's more commonly know as "Unprocessable Content" these days. The text itself is unimportant, so unimportant HTTP2+ doesn't even include it in the response any more IIRC. |
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We should embrace HTTP semantics as much as possible. Previously I over-specified the status codes to make it seem like 400 should be used for everything when actually you should use the appropriate status code for the situation. I've attempted to address this by being much more explicit, and have split the previous examples into 400 (syntactically invalid request) and 422 (syntactically valid request, but semantically unprocessable) whilst also putting recommendations for various other HTTP status codes you should consider using inspired by various situations you're likely to see as a GraphQL server. I've tried to define them mostly in a sort of "chronological" order of the way that you would process a request.