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I hate API like this (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is Microsoft.
He returns Webhook success with a code 200 and plaintext 1.
He returns Webhook failure with a code 200 and a string tells its endpoint returned error 400.
the string didn't tell what exactly the error.
Don’t be like Microsoft.

EDIT: Got a few details wrong since this happens a few months ago and this meme used to be on r/ProgrammerHumor. Also the proof:

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's similar to how I now often avoid throwing errors in my code, and instead return a 'results' object that could potentially have an error or a success. It often forces you to test and think about the non happy path more thoroughly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Exceptions actually have a huge performance hit, you should only use them in a HALT EVERYTHING IMMEDIATELY situations and never in anything that could be called repeatedly. We have refactored few of those to be 10-100 times faster by just returning success: false instead of throwing and catching exceptions.