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Re:I've been abusing HTTP Status Codes in my APIs for years by that_james on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @10:46AM (#32083482)
For me it boils down to this:

If you ask for an employee that doesn't exist, is it a failure? Or is it just a negative, but expected response?

Perhaps that's a stupid question though.

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Re:I've been abusing HTTP Status Codes in my APIs for years by wizofaus on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @11:34AM (#32084124)
If you write an API designed to return a single entity matching the path provided, it's absolutely an error if it doesn't exist. If your API returns the simplest possible JSON representation in a success case, what JSON should it return if it doesn't exist?
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