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API Development Quiz Practice
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API Development
A team invents a custom error shape { ok: false, msg: '...', code: 42 } for their new API instead of using RFC 9457. What's the main downside?
A
No real downside — custom shapes are equally good
B
Every client calling this API needs bespoke parsing logic specific to this one API, with no guarantee of consistency, unlike a standardized, widely-recognized shape
C
This is actually required by HTTP itself
D
Custom shapes are faster to parse than JSON
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