topic Error formats in ArcGIS Online Developers Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-developers-questions/error-formats/m-p/286578#M349 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>A users posted an error response from AGOL here:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/90015-OAuth-issues">http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/90015-OAuth-issues</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My question is where is this error response documented?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It isn't here:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcgis-rest-api/index.html#/Token/02r300000213000000/">http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcgis-rest-api/index.html#/Token/02r300000213000000/</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The thing that bothers me about this is that it is hard to write code which does error handling correctly when you don't know what the response can be.&nbsp; The format is very similar to that returned by ArcGIS Server except that it adds "error" and "error_description".&nbsp; Why did the author choose to do this instead of simply using "message" and "details" which was already present?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This is a repeating pattern.&nbsp; For example, the admin API to ArcGIS Server chose to use a totally different error response.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 10 Sep 2013 20:54:02 GMT RichardWatson 2013-09-10T20:54:02Z Error formats https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-developers-questions/error-formats/m-p/286578#M349 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>A users posted an error response from AGOL here:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/90015-OAuth-issues">http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/90015-OAuth-issues</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My question is where is this error response documented?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It isn't here:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcgis-rest-api/index.html#/Token/02r300000213000000/">http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcgis-rest-api/index.html#/Token/02r300000213000000/</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The thing that bothers me about this is that it is hard to write code which does error handling correctly when you don't know what the response can be.&nbsp; The format is very similar to that returned by ArcGIS Server except that it adds "error" and "error_description".&nbsp; Why did the author choose to do this instead of simply using "message" and "details" which was already present?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This is a repeating pattern.&nbsp; For example, the admin API to ArcGIS Server chose to use a totally different error response.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 10 Sep 2013 20:54:02 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-developers-questions/error-formats/m-p/286578#M349 RichardWatson 2013-09-10T20:54:02Z