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Daniel Irvine is a UK-based software consultant. He helps businesses simplify their existing codebases and assists dev teams in improving the quality of their software using eXtreme programming (XP) practices. He has been coaching developers for many years and co-founded the Queer Code London meetup.
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Handling server errors

The /customers endpoint may return a 422 Unprocessable Entity error if the customer data failed the validation process. This could happen if, for example, the phone number already exists within the system. If this happens, we want to withhold calling the onSave callback and instead display the errors to the user and give them the chance to correct them.

The body of the response will contain error data very similar to the data we’ve built for the validation framework. Here’s an example of the JSON that would be received:

{
  "errors": {
    "phoneNumber": "Phone number already exists in the system"
  }
}

We’ll update our code to display these errors in the same way our client errors appeared. Since we already handle errors for CustomerForm, we’ll need to adjust our tests in addition to the existing CustomerForm code.

Our code to date has made use of the...

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Daniel Irvine

Daniel Irvine is a UK-based software consultant. He helps businesses simplify their existing codebases and assists dev teams in improving the quality of their software using eXtreme programming (XP) practices. He has been coaching developers for many years and co-founded the Queer Code London meetup.
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