1242649 - Error responses should use "source" attribute, JSON Pointers

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: BrowserCompat, defect)

Description

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

What did you do?
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1. POST to create a version with a blank version attribute

What happened?
==============
Got an error message:

{
    "errors": [
        {
            "status": "400",
            "detail": "This field may not be blank.",
            "path": "/data/attributes/version"
        }
    ]
}

What should have happened?
==========================
According to the JSON spec, the error should be more like:

{
    "errors": [
        {
            "status": "400",
            "detail": "This field may not be blank.",
            "source": {
                "pointer": "/data/attributes/version"
            }
        }
    ]
}

Is there anything else we should know?
======================================
Errors can be generated in the parser or the renderer.  The relevant section of the spec is at:

http://jsonapi.org/format/1.0/#error-objects

This format will be important when a front-end tool wants to parse a response and display errors to a user.

Comment 1

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

The BrowserCompat project is canceled.  See https://github.com/mdn/browsercompat for current effort. Bulk status change includes the random word TEMPOTHRONE.