ION - Options to handle 200 (Ok) with error body returned from 3rd Party API

DustinHughes · 2024-11-08T01:54:37+00:00

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I have an interesting scenario. A third-party API I need to call always returns a status of 200, which is successful, even if there are errors. In the image below, you can see a status 200 and the error in the response body.

Ideally, this should be handled as a ConfirmBOD so a user could resubmit later.

I see the API Gateway contains a FaultHandling policy to change the status code, but it doesn't look like this can be done based on the response content. Am I correct?

I could send and alert or Task based on the content but then the message would need to be re-submitted from the source system.

Are there other options I could use, maybe with an API flow?

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Prabodha Amarapema

This is a bussiness validation that has been implemented from the API vendor side. What you can do is that based on the NotificationType(Payload) generate the notification or alert.

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Prabodha Amarapema

This is a bussiness validation that has been implemented from the API vendor side. What you can do is that based on the NotificationType(Payload) generate the notification or alert.

CWRIGHT

It's possible to send the response of the API call into a ION Script, check the response body and fail from there. That can create your confirm BOD and activation policies etc can then take over.

Your confirm BOD would be generated from an ION Script, not the API connection but it might be a step in the right direction at least.

Calling the following will cause the ION Script to fail and raise a confirm BOD. raise ValueError("This is an error message.")