Handling errors
How to handle and understand errors in API responses.
When something goes wrong with a request, the response provides important informations to help to understand what happened and how to fix it.
Following there is an example of the error response structure:
{
"responseData": "[Ingresse Exception Error] DATABASE EXCEPTION - ERROR 3002 - Event ID not found.\nFields: eventId=> 9999999999999",
"responseDetails": "OK",
"responseError": {
"status": false,
"category": "DATABASE EXCEPTION",
"code": 3002,
"message": "Event ID not found.\nFields: eventId=> 999999999",
"fields": {
"eventId": "9999999999999"
}
},
"responseStatus": 200
}
HTTP status code
The HTTP status code will be always 200.
responseData: a simple string containing a summary of all information in the responseError;
responseError.status: tells if whether or not the request could be processed;
category: may be one of the following values:
- CONTEXT EXCEPTION
- DATABASE EXCEPTION
- EXTERNAL ERROR EXCEPTION
- FATAL ERROR EXCEPTION
- UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS EXCEPTION
- USAGE EXCEPTION
code: an Ingresse's internal code that helps to identify a specific error.
message: a human readable message that describes the problem.
fields: an object with all data involved in the detection of the problem.
Updated about 6 years ago