Topic

API error design

Design work on how libraries and services report failure to their callers, covering typed reasons, result objects, error codes and the branching those choices force on client code.

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Checking the encoding before the version byte keeps a wallet from naming the wrong chain

A wallet engineer's Python package splits address rejection into three typed reasons and checks encoding before network, so a mangled testnet string comes back as a bad checksum.

Publishers:dev.to

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