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There are many error conditions that can be returned from the writing or reading of a stream. All of these can be identified by their status codes and should be relatively easy to diagnose. This document lists some of the cases that can result in errors.

Stream Never Created Get

ouro@ouroboros:~/src/EventStore.wiki$  curl -i -H "Accept:application/json" "http://127.0.0.1:2113/streams/anewstream"
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: DELETE, GET, POST, OPTIONS
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type, X-Requested-With, X-PINGOTHER
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Content-Type: ; charset: utf-8
Server: Mono-HTTPAPI/1.0
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:41:29 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Keep-Alive: timeout=15,max=100

Unknown Content Type On Read of Stream

Write to Stream with Invalid Content for Content Type

oruo@ouroboros:~/src/EventStore.wiki$ cat ~/simpleevent.txt
[
  {
    "eventId": "fbf4b1a1-b4a3-4dfe-a01f-ec52c34e16e4",
    "eventType": "event-type",
    "data": {

      "a": "1"
    }
  },
  {
    "eventId": "0f9fad5b-d9cb-469f-a165-70867728951e",
    "eventType": "event-type",
    "data": {

      "a": "1"
    }
  }
]

ouro@ouroboros:~$  curl -i -d @/home/ouro/simpleevent.txt "http://127.0.0.1:2113/streams/newstream" -H "Content-Type:text/xml"
HTTP/1.1 400 Write request body invalid
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: DELETE, GET, POST, OPTIONS
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type, X-Requested-With, X-PINGOTHER
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Content-Type: 
Server: Mono-HTTPAPI/1.0
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:48:27 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close

Security Denied

ouro@ouroboros:~/src/EventStore.wiki$ curl -i "http://127.0.0.1:2113/streams/newstream" -H "Content-Type:application/json" -u admin:foo
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: 
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type, X-Requested-With, X-PINGOTHER
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="ES"
Content-Type: 
Server: Mono-HTTPAPI/1.0
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:45:30 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Keep-Alive: timeout=15,max=100