API Response codes and error handling

[donquixote]

Hello,
when an API request fails, currently the response is just a "500 Internal Server Error" with html body.
This happens e.g. when I try to create a workspace with a group id that is already used by another workspace.

Alternatives:

• To align with Nextcloud core or apps, there should be a nested response structure like {ocs: {meta: {statuscode: ***, message: "Id already occupied", status: "failure"}, data: {}}}. The actual http response code would be just 200.
• Alternatively, to behave more like some other APIs, there could be a response code and message more specific than "500 Internal Server Error".

[zak39]

Hi @donquixote

Thank you for your feedbacks 👍

About the OCS model, we are studying the structure of ours API/Rest and determine whether it is suitable for our case.

Alternatively, to behave more like some other APIs, there could be a response code and message more specific than "500 Internal Server Error".

I think we fixed this issue. I keep your issue under your hat if I will meet this error type.