Node classifier errors

Error response description

Errors from the node classifier service are JSON responses.

Error responses contain these keys:


Key	Definition
`kind`	A string classifying the error. It is the same for all errors that have the same kind of thing in their `details` key.
`msg`	A human-readable message describing the error, suitable for presentation to the user.
`details`	Additional machine-readable information about the error condition. The format of this key's value varies between kinds of errors but is the same for any given error kind.

Internal server errors

Any endpoint might return a 500: Internal Server Error response in addition to its usual responses. There are two kinds of internal server error responses: application-error and database-corruption.

An application-error response is a catchall for unexpected errors. The msg of an application-error 500 contains the underlying error's message first, followed by a description of other information that can be found in details. The details contain the error's stack trace as an array of strings under the trace key, and might also contain schema, value, and error keys if the error was caused by a schema validation failure.

A database-corruption 500 response occurs when a resource that is retrieved from the database fails to conform to the schema expected of it by the application. This is probably just a bug in the software, but it could potentially indicate either genuine corruption in the database or that a third party has changed values directly in the database. The msg section contains a description of how the database corruption could have occurred. The details section contains retrieved, schema, and error keys, which have the resource as retrieved, the schema it is expected to conform to, and a description of how it fails to conform to that schema as the respective values.

Not found errors

Any endpoint where a resource identifier is supplied can produce a 404 Not Found Error response if a resource with that identifier could not be found.

All not found error responses have the same form. The kind is "not-found", the msg is "The resource could not be found.", and the details key contains the URI of the request that resulted in this response.