People tend to overuse abort()
, while in fact it is very simple to generate your own errors. You can write a function that generates custom errors easily, here is one that matches your JSON:
def make_error(status_code, sub_code, message, action):
response = jsonify({
'status': status_code,
'sub_code': sub_code,
'message': message,
'action': action
})
response.status_code = status_code
return response
Then instead of calling abort()
do this:
@route('/')
def my_view_function():
# ...
if need_to_return_error:
return make_error(500, 42, 'You idiots!...', 'redirect...')
# ...