API: Consider alternatives to error message prefixes
The following discussion from !112193 (merged) should be addressed:
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@tkuah started a discussion: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/api_styleguide.html#error-handling
This might be confusing to GraphQL and REST API consumers. From their perspective, they will receive errors with
UF
prefixes which will be meaningless to them.Why do we need this prefix ? What does it mean for an error message to be user-facing, does it mean used by the GitLab front-end only ?
Edited by Thong Kuah