Http code Standards:
1xx: Informational – Communicates transfer protocol-level information
2xx: Success -Indicates that the client’s request was accepted successfully.
3xx: Redirection – Indicates that the client must take some additional action in order to complete their request.
4xx: Client Error – This category of error status codes points the finger at clients.
5xx: Server Error – The server takes responsibility for these error status codes.
Use HTTP status codes
200 – OK – Eyerything is working
201 – OK – New resource has been created
204 – OK – The resource was successfully deleted
304 – Not Modified – The client can use cached data
400 – Bad Request – The request was invalid or cannot be served. The exact error should be explained in the error payload. E.g. „The JSON is not valid“
401 – Unauthorized – The request requires an user authentication
403 – Forbidden – The server understood the request, but is refusing it or the access is not allowed.
404 – Not found – There is no resource behind the URI.
422 – Unprocessable Entity – Should be used if the server cannot process the enitity, e.g. if an image cannot be formatted or mandatory fields are missing in the payload.
500 – Internal Server Error – API developers should avoid this error. If an error occurs in the global catch blog, the stracktrace should be logged and not returned as response.
Summary
In this tutorial we learnt about REST Http Status Codes, the Most used Http status codes and its meaning.
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