Response

Last update: 7 days ago by Irais Aguirre

The response returned by the service is a JSON string that varies according to the response type.

Successful response example

{
    "mappings": [
        {
            "name": " Google Short URL",
            "originalURL": "http://google.com",
            "shortURL": "http://bcm.com/2g3L",
            "shortenedPrev": false
        },
        {
            "name": "1-201905311532397",
            "originalURL": "https://mail.google.com",
            "shortURL": "http://bcm.com/2g3M",
            "shortenedPrev": true
        }
    ]
}

Name	Description
mappings	Array containing the result for each requested URL
name	Name assigned to the URL; if none was provided, it is generated automatically.
originalURL	Original URL.
shortURL	Shortened URL.
shortenedPrev	Flag indicating whether the URL was shortened for the first time or had already been requested.

Error response example

When there is a problem processing the request, the JSON string changes; the string you will receive is shown below.

{
    "error": {
        "code": "ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER",
        "message": "Bad arguments",
        "status": 400
    }
}

Name	Description
code	Result code; its value indicates the type of error that occurred.
message	Describes the type of error that occurred.
status	Identifies the error that occurred with a numeric value.

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