USER MANUALS

Status Codes

Following the RESTful conventions, the HTTP status codes returned by the RESTful Web service have a special meaning:

HTTP status codes returned by the RESTful Web service

Code

Message

Meaning

200

Success

201

Created

The POST request (INSERT operation) was processed successfully, which means that the row was inserted correctly in the source.

204

No content

For IDU requests, it means that the IDU request was executed successfully.

400

Bad request

It means one of the following:

  • Incorrect parameters or malformed URL

  • Mandatory parameter missing

  • Try to access an element URI in a view that does not have primary key

  • For POST or PUT requests (see section IDU Requests), the XML or JSON document is not well-formed

401

Not authorized

The credentials provided are incorrect

403

Forbidden

The user does not have permissions to perform the action. That is, the credentials are correct but the user account is forbidden to do this action. E.g. the user tries to insert a row on a view and does not have privileges to do so.

404

Not found

The resource does not exist. E.g. the database does not exist, the view does not exist or the URL points to a row by its primary key and there is not row on that view with that key.

405

Method not allowed

HTTP Method not allowed on that resource

406

Not accepted

The client requests a representation format, which is not supported

500

Internal error

Runtime error. If the error occurred during the execution of a query, you will also obtain the execution trace, unless you are accessing a published REST Web service and you have cleared the option “Display verbose error messages”.

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