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Ben Pate 🀘🏻

HTTP signatures
Standard message payloads
Descriptive error messages

@J12t @activitypubtestsuite

1 Oct 2023 at 21:52 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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Johannes Ernst

@benpate @activitypubtestsuite "Descriptive error messages" is a new one for me. Give an example?

2 Oct 2023 at 0:11 | Open on social.coop
Ben Pate 🀘🏻

Just this: there are tons of ways that an API call can fail, but most Fediverse software just returns something unhelpful, like 500 Internal Server Error.

For production software, that’s probably reasonable, but a well-written test suite should help people debug, not just tell them about the bug.

So if I have a voice, a test suite should really return errors like: β€œthis message was not accepted because it is missing a β€˜name’ field.”

@J12t @activitypubtestsuite

2 Oct 2023 at 2:14 | Open on mastodon.social
Johannes Ernst

@benpate @activitypubtestsuite Right! Somewhere between returning error message payload in HTTP error responses, or logging things to the app's log or the system log, if it is reasonably easy to get at ... I agree!

2 Oct 2023 at 2:22 | Open on social.coop
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