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https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/782#issuecomment-782741719,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/782,782741719,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDc4Mjc0MTcxOQ==,9599,2021-02-20T20:05:04Z,2021-02-20T20:05:04Z,OWNER,"> The only advantage of headers is that you don’t need to do .rows, but that’s actually good as a data validation step anyway—if .rows is missing assume there’s an error and do your error handling path instead of parsing the rest.

This is something I've not thought very hard about. If there's an error, I need to return a top-level object, not a top-level array, so I can provide details of the error.

But this means that client code will have to handle this difference - it will have to know that the returned data can be array-shaped if nothing went wrong, and object-shaped if there's an error.

The HTTP status code helps here - calling client code can know that a 200 status code means there will be an array, but an error status code means an object.

If developers really hate that the shape could be different, they can always use `?_extra=next` to ensure that the top level item is an object whether or not an error occurred. So I think this is OK.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",627794879,