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When FusionAuth encounters an error or finds validation errors in your request, an Errors object is returned in the response body. The Errors object is defined as follows, where fieldName indicates the field in the request body the message is describing and [x] indicates the value is part of an array of one or more values.

Error Fields#

generalErrors Array

The list of general error messages.

generalErrors[x].code String

The code of the error message.

generalErrors[x].message String

A descriptive error message that details the problem that occurred.

fieldErrors Object

The list of field error message.

fieldErrors[fieldName] Array

The list of error messages for that field

fieldErrors[fieldName][x].code String

The code of the error message.

fieldErrors[fieldName][x].message String

A descriptive error message that details the problem that occurred.

Example Errors JSON Object

{
  "generalErrors": [
    {
      "code": "[invalid]",
      "message": "Your JSON was invalid"
    }
  ],
  "fieldErrors": {
    "user.username": [
      {
        "code": "[duplicate]user.username",
        "message": "A User with username = [neo] already exists."
      }
    ]
  }
}