hyper Response Shape

Most hyper APIs will return a "hyper" shape like the following:

interface HyperResult = {
  ok: boolean,
  status?: number,
  msg?: string
}

ok is always provided and is true if the operation was successful, and false if the operation was not successful. When ok is true, there MAY be additional fields on the result, which depends on the specific operation being performed (see API Reference). When ok is false, An optional status and msg can be included to provide additional context.

The hyper Server does not enforce any semantics on status or msg, besides their types. It is up the hyper Service Adapter to set status and/or msg. When an error occurs, a common paradigm for adapters is to use an HTTP status code for status, and msg as a free text field to provided additional context.

hyper-connect and the hyper Response Shape

hyper-connect will NOT throw unless:

• A network error occurs, for example a TCP connection being dropped
• A 5xx status code is received from the hyper Server

This means your business logic SHOULD check ok property and subsequently status and msg (checking status is most common) in the resolved result. This is by design, as it encourages business logic to handle sad paths when interacting with the services tier.