API Design · Middle · Question 11 of 75

What's the right status for a request that's well-formed but violates a business rule, like 'can't ship an unpaid order'?

✓Correct answer: Usually 409 Conflict (state conflict) or 422 Unprocessable Content, with a clear error code
2500 Internal Server Error
3200 OK with success: false

Explanation

Pick a convention and use it across the API. The body explains the rule that failed.

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