422 Unprocessable Content
Parsed fine, fails validation. The usual home of field-by-field error responses.
422Client error
- What it means
- Parsed fine, fails validation. The usual home of field-by-field error responses.
- In practice
- The request was valid JSON in the right shape — the server just rejects what it says: an email without an @, a quantity of −1, a date in the past. The response body usually itemises the failures per field. If you get 422 with an empty body, the API author owes you an apology.
- Whose problem is it?
- The request. Retrying it unchanged will get the same answer.
Often confused with