To use 404 code or not

At work I’m working on implementing REST based API end-points to expand the functionaity of the front-end application. Recently I had a discussion with one of the developers in the team about what HTTP error should be used when something that is expected to be present is missing due to some inconsistency in the server. Suppose you have a resource type called File Resource. Let’s assume that we have two endpoints for this:...

January 23, 2021 · Sinaru Gunawardena