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 return the status code as a second parameter of the return, see example below

@app.route('/my400')
def my400():
    code = 400
    msg = 'my message'
    return msg, code