Standard Error Contract

Kind: technique

Layer: Contracts Core

Record: lexicon:standard-error-contract

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for giving every error one published shape with a code, a message and its context.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Version Sprawl and before Introduce Boundary DTO.

Category

• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility

Refactors

• Inconsistent Error Model
• API Contract
• Uniform Interface
• Self-Describing API

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems