How to intentionally cause a 400 Bad Request in Python/Flask?

Question

A consumer of my REST API says that on occasion I am returning a 400 Bad Request - The request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect. error.

Answer 1

You can use abort to raise an HTTP error by status code.

from flask import abort
@app.route('/badrequest400')
def bad_request():
    abort(400)