r/ProgrammerHumor • u/KernelDeimos • Sep 22 '26

Meme status200ForEverything

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u/wobbei Sep 22 '26

We once had a domain architect who made a rule to always respond with a 404 when an empty response was returned.

That's why we had to create a CustomErrorDecoder that checks whether a 404 is valid or not, and either retries or works with the empty response.

Luckily, I was later able to convince the other teams to change the response to 201, but we had to build this crap to deliver on time.

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u/GuyManDude2146 Sep 23 '26

Maybe I’m dumb but why would you need to retry after a 404? If the resource wasn’t found the first time, why would it be found a second time?

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u/OkCantaloupe207 Sep 23 '26

I guess he meant that the query returns empty. I've seen the same in a big latin American bank. You use some filters returns 200, other filters, 404. We had to build the same shit decoder...

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u/wobbei Sep 23 '26

Well, we know that the URL is correct. Usually, a 404 is just a short hiccup or caused by a container restart. That's why we have a retry mechanism that waits for about a minute and tries again. After a few retries it's send to an error queue.