Write proper Responder #7

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opened 2021-12-29 20:16:59 +01:00 by Jef Roosens · 0 comments

Jef Roosens commented

2021-12-29 20:16:59 +01:00

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We currently just use the built-in Rocket responders for most things, but those have multiple drawbacks:

If a backend operation fails, the response gets handled by the default error handler instead of us
We can't support muliple serialisation types

Both these issues could be solved by writing our own responder struct that implements the Responder trait. This would allow us to still have control over the content of our message, even if the backend operations fail. We could just make the responder itself never fail, allowing us to fully control the output of our APIs.

We currently just use the built-in Rocket responders for most things, but those have multiple drawbacks: * If a backend operation fails, the response gets handled by the default error handler instead of us * We can't support muliple serialisation types Both these issues could be solved by writing our own responder struct that implements the Responder trait. This would allow us to still have control over the content of our message, even if the backend operations fail. We could just make the responder itself never fail, allowing us to fully control the output of our APIs.