How to change status of JsonResponse in Django

Question

My API is returning a JSON object on error but the status code is HTTP 200:

response = JsonResponse({\'status         


        

Answer 1

Python built-in http library has new class called HTTPStatus which is come from Python 3.5 onward. You can use it when define a status.

from http import HTTPStatus
response = JsonResponse({'status':'false','message':message}, status=HTTPStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR)

The value of HTTPStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR.value is 500. When someone read your code it's better define someting like HTTPStatus. other than define an integer value like 500. You can view all the IANA-registered status codes from python library here.