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distinguishing no result from an error
July 19, 2011, 10:32:23 am
Currently, the only way to distinguish between an error message and an empty result set is to parse the error message. Could we have something better since not finding a custom value for a contribution, for example, is not always an error per se. Just throwing out ideas here, but perhaps use a different value for is_error, like 2.
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Re: distinguishing no result from an error
July 19, 2011, 01:48:45 pm
If you mean a 'get' request is setting 'is_error' = 1 when it has worked but no results are found then that is a bug. The correct output is

'count' => 0
'is_error' => 0
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Re: distinguishing no result from an error
July 19, 2011, 02:04:40 pm
Okay, I'll fix this in next version.
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