API Design · Junior · Question 25 of 75

What does a good error response body include?

✓Correct answer: A stable machine-readable code, a human-readable message, and details such as which fields failed
2Only the HTTP status code repeated
3The full stack trace

Explanation

RFC 9457 Problem Details (type, title, status, detail, instance) is a standard format for this.

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