[jira] [Created] (DRILL-2205) REST API should have a consistent way of reporting failure in case a request fails

["Hanifi Gunes (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Hanifi Gunes created DRILL-2205:
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             Summary: REST API should have a consistent way of reporting failure in case a request fails
                 Key: DRILL-2205
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-2205
             Project: Apache Drill
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Client - HTTP
    Affects Versions: 0.8.0
            Reporter: Hanifi Gunes
            Assignee: Jason Altekruse


In general, REST API does not do a good job reporting failures. Making a bogus HTTP call to create a new storage plugin such like

{code}
POST [drill-http-server-url]/storage/[storage-plugin-name]
{"name":"bogus"}
{code}

returns HTTP OK with no evidence that the former query failed except the string payload. This is quite a bit of problem for clients that must safely create or update storage plugin before attempting to execute queries as currently there is no unified definitive way to tell if a call succeeds w/o checking the response body. I presume test frameworks heavily rely on this functionality uploading plugin before each test run.

As part of DRILL-1357, our greater effort to re-design the REST API, we should make sure to define a consistent error message skeleton that is used across resources.



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