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Northbeam uses conventional HTTP response codes to indicate the success or failure of an API request. In general: Codes in the 2xx range indicate success. Codes in the 4xx range indicate an error that failed given the information provided (e.g., a required parameter was omitted). Codes in the 5xx range indicate an error with Northbeam’s servers. We suggest gracefully handling errors that may be returned by Northbeam.

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Status codes

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Attributes

status: string
The error code. response: json-encoded string or string
For some known or common errors, we will return a json-encoded string that represents an array of objects with an “order_id”, human readable “message”, and the “json_path” of the failing attributes. For other errors, we may simple return an error string in a human readable format.

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Common errors

  • A 400 “Bad Request” error with no additional error message is normally due to JSON being malformed. Please ensure that you are sending properly formed JSON blobs.