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   <H1>[99s-extend] REST handler failure</H1>
    <B>Ivan uemlianin</B> 
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<PRE>Sorry for terse but I only have a phone. Why can't you return a 404 here?  Using something like cowboy:reply(404, ...

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On 29 Oct 2013, at 21:25, Daniel Goertzen &lt;<A HREF="https://lists.ninenines.eu/listinfo/extend">daniel.goertzen at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:

&gt;<i> My situation is that I have a rest handler that may fail due to invalid url segments.  Example situation:
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> init(_Transport, _Req, _Opts) -&gt;
</I>&gt;<i>         {upgrade, protocol, cowboy_rest}.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> content_types_provided(Req, State) -&gt;
</I>&gt;<i>     {[{&lt;&lt;&quot;application/json&quot;&gt;&gt;, get_json}], Req, State}.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> get_json(Req0, State) -&gt;
</I>&gt;<i>     {Params, Req1} = lists:mapfoldl(fun cowboy_req:binding/2, Req0, [param1, param2, param3, ....]),
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i>     case catch other_module:request(Params) of
</I>&gt;<i>         {'EXIT', {badarg, _}} -&gt;
</I>&gt;<i>             hmmm, Params were bad and I would like to return a 404 code now.
</I>&gt;<i>         Result -&gt;
</I>&gt;<i>             {jiffy:encode(Result), Req1, State}
</I>&gt;<i>     end.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> So I would like to return a 404 code when my underlying request function fails, but it appears my choices are:
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> - return a 200 (ok) response with data.
</I>&gt;<i> - crash and cause a 500 (Internal Server Error) response to be returned.  Not exactly the sentiment I want.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Is there some other way to cause a 404 response?
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I realize I could add path constraint functions, but I will be replicating logic from my underlying request function.  Furthermore, the constraint functions consider parameters in isolation, so that won't work if the validity of parameters is coupled.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Thanks,
</I>&gt;<i> Dan.
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