Error body returned by the Princeton University Library Allsearch API. Not RFC 9457; a nested object carrying a machine-readable problem code and a human message. Derived from a live 400 response on 2026-08-19.
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/princeton/refs/heads/main/json-schema/princeton-allsearch-error.json",
"title": "Princeton Allsearch error envelope",
"description": "Error body returned by the Princeton University Library Allsearch API. Not RFC 9457; a nested object carrying a machine-readable problem code and a human message. Derived from a live 400 response on 2026-08-19.",
"x-provenance": {
"generated": "2026-08-19",
"method": "derived",
"source": "https://allsearch-api.princeton.edu/search/catalog",
"verified_against": "examples/princeton-allsearch-empty-query-400.json",
"x-operator": "institution"
},
"type": "object",
"required": ["error"],
"properties": {
"error": {
"type": "object",
"required": ["problem", "message"],
"properties": {
"problem": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Machine-readable problem code. Observed value: QUERY_IS_EMPTY. Princeton publishes no enumeration of the full set, so this is not constrained here.",
"examples": ["QUERY_IS_EMPTY"]
},
"message": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Human-readable explanation.",
"examples": ["The query param must contain non-whitespace characters."]
}
},
"additionalProperties": true
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}
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