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/movie/rating undocumented API response?
posted by dave sennSTAFFMOD on June 27, 2013 at 6:01 AM
Hi
I've just come across something I can’t find in the API documentation. I’ve made a call to the /3/movie/{id}/rating method and passed an invalid rating-value as parameter.
JSON Body:
{"value":9.1 }According to the documentation the API should have returned something like this:
{
"status_code": 5,
"status_message": "Failed…?"
}
But the API has returned:
{"failure":true,"error":"Unable to save the rating because: Value is not a multiple of .50."}Have I missed something in the documentation?
Reply by Travis Bell
on June 27, 2013 at 9:35 AM
Hi Dave,
Good find. The API should still serve the standard status_code error block. I've created a new ticket and will look at this shortly.
Reply by dave senn
on June 28, 2013 at 3:14 AM
Thanks for your support.
Reply by Travis Bell
on June 28, 2013 at 10:20 AM
Fix for this was just deployed.
Reply by dave senn
on June 28, 2013 at 12:23 PM
Just tested it, now it returns a (400) Bad Request error. (Movie 550, rating: 9.1)
Reply by Travis Bell
on June 28, 2013 at 12:49 PM
Yes, the HTTP status code on a validation error like this is 400. We still respond with body and a valid
status_codeerror:Cheers.
Reply by dave senn
on June 28, 2013 at 1:01 PM
Sorry was my fault…
I haven’t seen the error message, because of .net (which I’m using) per default throws an error when a server returns an http error code….
(Details for the .Net developers with the same problem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/692342/net-httpwebrequest-getresponse-raises-exception-when-http-status-code-400-ba)
Thanks your answer.