Error as a Service
have you ever needed to display an error in your application, but had no idea what to say in it?
Look no further! EaaS is here!
EaaS (Error as a Service) provides a modern, RESTful, scalable solution to the common problem of needing an error message to display to a user[1].
Returned error messages are taken from some of the tech industry's best error-producing companies and software (ie, Microsoft)!
Some other error messages are just error messages. After all, Windows and Unix only have a limited number of actually good error messages.
either run it on your own server with node server.js, or be a cheapo and use the one I'm hosting on Red Hat OpenShift at the url http://eaas.masonx.ca/
make a GET request to /txt or / to get an error message back in plaintext.
alternatively, you can also send a GET request to /json to get a JSON response.
- allow selection of type of error message (ie, web, nix, win, misc, all) - quite hard
- use mongoDB somehow to make this /really/ web-scale
- Java Exception class that uses this
Please donate your error messages! Fork the repo, add to the end of errors.json and make a pull request.