it's unlikely, for sure, but e.g. there may be a typescript spec floating around out there
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:58 AM, Rodric Rabbah <[email protected]> wrote: > It is changing the schema for the error response, but I'm having a hard > time thinking of a case where a client depends on the value of the "code" > (so that a change from int to string becomes a problem) - do you have an > example? > > Renaming "code" would be more worrisome to me, but apart from the CLI, I > suspect - with no evidence to back this up other than my intuition - that > it's not used that heavily. > > -r > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:51 AM, Nick Mitchell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > this seems like a breaking API change. e.g. in nodejs `===` checks would > > break. > > > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Rodric Rabbah <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Should we also rename “code”? > > > > > > I don’t see the value in using code: 0 and changing the schema should > be > > > fine and better in the long run. > > > > > > -r > > > > > > > On Apr 19, 2018, at 11:31 AM, Christian Bickel <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I'm currently working on a PR which basically moves the transactionId > > > generation from the controller to the entrypoint of the system. This is > > the > > > nginx or a frontdoor above. > > > > One change in this PR is to change the format of the tid from a > number > > > to a String. > > > > This works pretty well except one change, that could be seen by > users. > > > > If there is an error in our system, we return an error response with > a > > > short description and the tid. Until now the tid was a number, so the > > value > > > in the JSON has no quotes. With this change, the response message would > > > change, because the tid is a String. > > > > This means the response would change from > > > > ``` > > > > { > > > > "error": "This is the description", > > > > "code": 123 > > > > } > > > > ``` > > > > to > > > > ``` > > > > { > > > > "error": "This is the description", > > > > "code": "123" > > > > } > > > > ```. > > > > > > > > Do you agree, that this change would be OK? > > > > An alternative would be to always return a 0 and add an additional > > field > > > with our new tid-format. > > > > > > > > If there are no concerns, I'll go ahead and change the field from the > > > number to a String. > > > > > > > > Greetings > > > > Christian Bickel > > > > > >
