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Kevin Meredith
Kevin Meredith

Reputation: 41939

HTTP Return Code for "Invalid" Body

Let's say I have a REST POST end-point: www.foo.com/validate/X where X represents a number.

My server-side pseudocode looks like this:

validateId(id, jsonObj) { 

  if ( isValid(jsonObj) { return 200/OK }
  else { return ??? }
}

What's the right HTTP return code here for the else case? Basically I want to indicate to the client that its jsonObj is not valid.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 13550

Answers (2)

Pedro Werneck
Pedro Werneck

Reputation: 41938

If you don't care about using WebDAV codes, 422 Unprocessable Entity is the most adequate, otherwise, use 400 Bad Request.

Upvotes: 2

Chrissx
Chrissx

Reputation: 357

Usually for validating an input we have to use 400 (Bad Request) and your validation text( if the input wrong). You can read about in RESTful Web Services or other REST books.

Upvotes: 1

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