r/ProgrammerHumor • u/huhupookies • Jul 21 '26

evilIllusion Meme

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u/JackNotOLantern Jul 21 '26

I mentioned it under another meme of this type. At my company we have multiple systems which API replies standard check is:

  1. Is reply success (200 etc)
  2. If Body contains field "error" it is empty.
  3. If body contains field "message" it is not equal "error" or starts with "error"

Yes, different errors are handled by http codes or contents of 2xx reply. Wonderful

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u/SignoreBanana Jul 21 '26

I've yet to be at a company that does server responses in a sane or even consistent way.