Clean Rest API Error Messages with Python
A great practice in software development is clear error message communication.
Something like "An error occurred. Please try again later."
, simply will not do because it’s simply easier to be explicit.
Our goal here would be to ensure that a consistent interface is communicated to our client applications regardless of request.
Tools and frameworks like Ruby-on-Rails make this really easy with it’s ActiveRecord implementation (Active record is literally a design pattern btw).
You’ll find that in most “fully featured” frameworks with ORMs like Rails, Django, Sails, etc, there is some sort of implementation that enables a clean interface for transmitting error messages, but often we don’t want to carry the bloat of these frameworks along.
Enter: types.
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