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A2MetalCore
A2MetalCore

Reputation: 1639

Best Practice For Consistent REST Status On Success/Failure (Using LoopBack)

We're using LoopBack (by StrongLoop) for our REST framework. What is the best practice for determining success or failure?

A successful result simply returns the the data (in JSON). An unsuccessful result returns readyState, responseText, status and statusText. It would be really nice if the successful result also returned a status so we have a consistent method of checking for success/failure. However, we don't want to mix status codes in with our data either.

function write(authkey, type, url, data, callback) {

    $.ajax({
        type: type,
        url: url,
        contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
        data: data,
        error: function (data) {
            callback(data);
        },
        success: function (data) {
            callback(data);
        }
    });
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 144

Answers (1)

superkhau
superkhau

Reputation: 2781

You should check the HTTP status code instead of depending on the results of the callback (ie. HTTP 200 = OK, 401 = Not Found, etc)

Upvotes: 1

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