Error 

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{
    "Name": "RESTable.Admin.Error",
    "Kind": "EntityResource",
    "Methods": ["GET", "DELETE", "REPORT", "HEAD"]
}

When the REST API aborts operations due to some error, information about the error is stored in the Error resource. Error entities contain information to help debug requests and resources, and are useful when encountering unknown errors. Erronous responses will contain a link to the corresponding Error entity in the ErrorInfo header for easy traceability.

Format

Property name Type Description
Id string The ID of the Error
Time datetime The date and time when the Error was encountered
ResourceName string The resource that threw the exception
Action string The action that failed (e.g. the method GET)
ErrorCode ErrorCode The ErrorCode of the Error
StackTrace string The stack trace of the encountered exception
Message string The message of the encountered exception
Uri string The uri of the request
Headers string The headers of the request
Body string The body of the request

Example

Request:

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GET https://myapp.com/api/thisisnotaresource

Response:

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{
  "Status": "fail",
  "ErrorType": "RESTable.Results.UnknownResource",
  "ErrorCode": "UnknownResource",
  "Message": "RESTable could not locate any resource by 'thisisnotaresource'.",
  "MoreInfoAt": "/restable.admin.error/id=1",
  "TimeStamp": "2021-10-20T13:01:23.8870186Z",
  "Uri": "/thisisnotaresource",
  "TimeElapsedMs": 0
}

Error lookup request:

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GET https://myapp.com/api/restable.admin.error/id=1

Error lookup response body:

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{
  "Status": "success",
  "Data": [
    {
      "Id": 1,
      "Uri": "/thisisnotaresource",
      "Method": "GET",
      "Headers": "Accept: */* | Host: localhost:5001 | User-Agent: curl/7.55.1",
      "Body": "",
      "ResourceName": "<unknown>",
      "Time": "2021-10-20T13:03:49.3631383Z",
      "ErrorCode": "UnknownResource",
      "StackTrace": "at RESTable.Meta.ResourceCollection.FindResource(String searchStri... etc."
    }
  ],
  "DataCount": 1,
  "TimeElapsedMs": 10.851
}

The StackTrace is useful to include in bug reports to developers.