We just need to find the floating spec and updated with the new schema.

Also `code` is not documented as top level API or documentation, didn't
find in the swagger doc [1]

+ 1 to change and adjust downstreams (i.e. CLI, etc..)

[1]
https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/blob/master/core/controller/src/main/resources/apiv1swagger.json


On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:04 PM Nick Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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