Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter comment on Error responses ?

[Taylor Singletary]

To add to Arnaud's comment...

There was a past where Twitter's error messages were very unstructured.
Newer API features follow a more descriptive, human-readable,
and programmatically consumable error structure. Version 1 of the API has
mixed error response formats depending on when the feature was introduced
(some introduced before versioning was present in the API). One can expect
that future versions of the API will have a unified error response structure
that will be able to adapt as needs and wisdom change.

I know that it's hard to pre-prepare your code for error conditions you may
not typically come across and we'll work this week on better documenting
both the less structured and more structured error responses for everyone's
benefit.

@episod  - Taylor Singletary


On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Arnaud Meunier  wrote:

> Hey Maomor,
>
> The Error codes don't follow a "logic" in particular.
> I'd recommend that you rely on the (error message string + HTTP Code)
> combination.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Arnaud / @rno 
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Maomor  wrote:
>
>> I do not understand why twitter will not tell us how we should handle
>> their error codes.
>>
>> Our applications need to distinguish between an error response such as
>> 7 ( No data for a place ) and 10 ( Geo services currently
>> unavailable ).
>>
>> Can Twitter understand that we have the need to do this ?
>>
>> And, if so, why do they remain silent on this issue ?
>>
>> --
>> Twitter developer documentation and resources:
>> https://dev.twitter.com/doc
>> API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi
>> Issues/Enhancements Tracker:
>> https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list
>> Change your membership to this group:
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
>>
>
>  --
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> API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi
> Issues/Enhancements Tracker:
> https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list
> Change your membership to this group:
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
>

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Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter comment on Error responses ?

[Arnaud Meunier]

Hey Maomor,

The Error codes don't follow a "logic" in particular.
I'd recommend that you rely on the (error message string + HTTP Code)
combination.

Hope that helps,
Arnaud / @rno 



On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Maomor  wrote:

> I do not understand why twitter will not tell us how we should handle
> their error codes.
>
> Our applications need to distinguish between an error response such as
> 7 ( No data for a place ) and 10 ( Geo services currently
> unavailable ).
>
> Can Twitter understand that we have the need to do this ?
>
> And, if so, why do they remain silent on this issue ?
>
> --
> Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc
> API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi
> Issues/Enhancements Tracker:
> https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list
> Change your membership to this group:
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
>

-- 
Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc
API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi
Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list
Change your membership to this group: 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk