Posted by Crell on November 21, 2011 at 11:57pm
There's a budding discussion in the WSCCI and Services groups about a Drupal-wide consistent standard for how to respond to REST requests. (When should use we a 403 vs. 404 vs. 406 vs. returning a 200 with a 0 as the only value, etc.) Right now Services.module-related code is very inconsistent. That should be made consistent both for Services and for Drupal 8 with the WSCCI initiative. What should that standard be? Discuss. :-)
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How others define service status codes
For discussion, here's a few status code definitions of well-used APIs out there:
Google's Data API has a good list:
http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/2.0/reference.html#HTTPStatusCodes
Ditto for the Twitter API:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/error-codes-responses
Posterous uses the often-forgotten 422 code for validation errors:
http://posterous.com/api/docs/pages/overview
REST & WOA
The REST & WOA Wiki has some pretty awesome docs on what seems quite appropriate:
http://restpatterns.org/HTTP_Status_Codes
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