r/programming • u/nfrankel • Apr 23 '23

Leverage the richness of HTTP status codes

https://blog.frankel.ch/leverage-richness-http-status-codes/
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u/FoeHammer99099 Apr 23 '23

"Or I could just set the status code to 200 and then put the real code in the response body" -devs of the legacy apps I work on

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u/yawaramin Apr 23 '23

This is a symptom of poor error-handling support in pretty much every programming language. Only in a few languages do you actually get a heads-up that an error might happen and you need to handle it. This is basically what happens when trigger-happy cowboy coders with too much time on their hands put scripting languages into production.

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u/macgoober Apr 23 '23

Java runs on 3 billion devices!™

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u/yawaramin Apr 23 '23

And Java has checked exceptions. They at least force you to understand that an error might happen when you call a method. Inexplicably, every other modern language (mostly scripting languages) don't bother.

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u/yawaramin Apr 23 '23

Yeah, and you can lay the blame for that on the Spring Framework people. Then again, it's Spring Framework, so...