500 Internal Server Error in Rest API - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to return a 500 Internal Server Error response in a REST API.

Rest API

return [1](500, 'Internal Server Error')

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Asend

Breturn

Craise

Dabort

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'return' without specifying the status code.

Using 'raise' without an exception.

Using 'send' which is not a valid function here.

The abort function is used to immediately stop the request and return an HTTP error code, such as 500.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to catch an exception and return a 500 error in a REST API.

Rest API

try:
    process_request()
except Exception as [1]:
    return {'error': 'Internal Server Error'}, 500

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Aex

Berr

Ce

Derror

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Leaving the exception variable blank.

Using a variable name that is not valid Python identifier.

The variable e is commonly used to catch exceptions in Python.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the code to correctly return a 500 Internal Server Error with JSON response.

Rest API

from flask import jsonify

@app.errorhandler([1])
def handle_500(error):
    response = jsonify({'message': 'Internal Server Error'})
    response.status_code = 500
    return response

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A500

B400

C200

D404

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 404 or 400 which are different error codes.

Using 200 which means success.

The error handler must catch the 500 status code to handle Internal Server Errors.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to create a dictionary comprehension that maps error codes to messages including 500 Internal Server Error.

Rest API

error_messages = {code: [1] for code in [400, 404, [2]]}

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A'Error occurred'

B500

C'Internal Server Error'

D'Not Found'

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using a code that is not an integer.

Using a message that does not describe an error.

The comprehension assigns the same message 'Error occurred' to all codes including 500.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to create a function that logs an error and returns a 500 Internal Server Error response.

Rest API

def handle_error(error):
    logger.[1](f'Error: [2]')
    return [3](500)

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Aerror

Cabort

Derror_message

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a wrong logging method like 'info' or 'debug'.

Returning without specifying the 500 status code.

The function logs the error using logger.error and returns a 500 error using abort.