[Developers] understanding an error message

[Tim Sturge]

It means we haven't been very precise in issuing good error messages. 
"sort" is a directive (and you see it in the "key" field) but the 
"dictionary value" part is just trying to cover too much ground in a 
single message.

I'll see if I can make these messages a bit clearer.

Tim

Augusto Callejas wrote:
> hi-
>
> when i intentionally submit this bad query:
>
> {
>   "query" : [
>     {
>       "id" : "/common/topic",
>       "properties" : [
>         {}
>       ],
>       "sort" : [
>         null
>       ],
>       "type" : "/type/type"
>     }
>   ]
> }
>
> i get this error message:
>
> {
>   "code" : "/api/status/error",
>   "messages" : [
>     {
>       "code" : "/api/status/error/mql/parse",
>       "info" : {
>         "key" : "sort"
>       },
>       "message" : "Can't use a dictionary as a directive value"
>     }
>   ]
> }
>
> i don't understand it.  what dictionary is the message referring to?
> does the error message mean the array?
>
> thanks,
> augusto.
>
>
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