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Serum Errors Serum Errors
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"Serum" errors are a set of simple standards for errors, error handling, and error serialization. "Serum" is a simple standard for errors and error serialization.
Serum aims to be a common-sense, "just enough" standard -- easy to adopt, easy to extend, easy to describe.
It specifies enough to be meaningful, but not so much that it becomes complicated.
The goals are: The goals are:
- to have observable, serializable, cross-langauge errors; - to have observable, serializable, cross-langauge errors;
- to have human readable, and also search-engine friendly errors; - to have human readable, and also search-engine friendly errors;
- and to promote rigorous error handling, and be amenable to static analysis. - and to promote rigorous error handling, and be amenable to static analysis.
Serum describes a simple format (canonically, in JSON), and a couple of conventions for using it.
(It can be other serial formats too. JSON is just clear and widely-known.)
In short: In short:
```json ```json
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} }
``` ```
You don't need any particular library to use Serum, and you don't need to be in any particular programming language.
It's easy to conform to Serum, with or without library support.
Keep reading for more details, below.
How Errors Should Be How Errors Should Be
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