Rest WebService error handling.
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Hi there,
I am using RestWebservice for few basic operations , like creating/searching. The request xml looks something like this
<customer>
<name/>
.....
</customer>
For a successful operation I return the same customer XML with extra fields populated in it(eg. systemId etc which we blank in the request) . with Response.Status=2000
For an unsuccessful operation i return something like this with different error codes . e.g Response.Status = 422(Unprocessable entity) Response.Status= 500(Internal Server Error) and few others..
<errors>
<error> An exception occurred while creating the customer</error>
<error> blah argument is not valid.</error>
</errors>
Now i am not sure , whether this is the correct way of sending the errors to the client. Maybe it should be present in the header of the response.
I will really appreciate any help. Thanks!
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