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API Error Codes

These are some error codes used by the Search APIs.

Error CodeDescription
400This happens mostly due to invalid parameters in the API request.

Some sample error messages:

  • Invalid or empty search_type

  • Pagination limit exceeded: requested start 0, rows 216. Max start 10000, rows 200

  • price expects a number or range, instead got $1,000-$100,000

  • rows should be >=0

  • Error parsing sort=

  • invalid account_id None

    • On exceeding the query length limit of 300 characters and query word count limit of 30 words.

  • Query Param length reached maximum limit of 300 characters

  • Query Param length reached maximum word count of 30 words
    • 403This happens when the auth_key in the request is either empty or incorrect.
    414 URI Too LongThis happens when the URI is over 16K Bytes. Check for high number of configurations in Facet Manager, or contact Support to debug.
    429 Rate limit errorUsually happens when there is a high load on the merchant search, or during load testing. Retrying this when the load is less gets the response.
    431 Request Header Fields Too LargeThis happens when the request header is too large. Check for high number of configurations in Facet Manager, or contact Support to debug.
    500 Internal Server ErrorServers are not working as expected. The request is probably valid but needs to be requested again later.

    If the frequency of this issue is high, reach out to your Bloomreach representative during integration and the Bloomreach support team post going live.
    504 Gateway timeout ErrorThis happens rarely and retrying after a certain interval usually fixes this issue
    543 Timeout ErrorServer did not receive a complete request from the client within a specific period of time.

    If the frequency of this issue is high, reach out to your Bloomreach representative during integration and the Bloomreach support team post going live.
    {
  "status_code": 400,
  "message": "[u'invalid account_id 0']"
}