TL;DR:使用404

请看这个博客。这解释得很好。

博客对204的评论总结如下:

204 No Content作为浏览器的响应代码并不是特别有用(尽管根据HTTP规范，浏览器需要将其理解为“不要更改视图”的响应代码)。 然而，No Content对于ajax web服务非常有用，它可能想要表示成功而不需要返回任何东西。(特别是在DELETE或post这样不需要反馈的情况下)。

因此，您的问题的答案是在您的情况下使用404。204是一个专门的响应代码，您不应该经常将其返回给浏览器以响应GET。

其他响应代码甚至比204和404更不合适:

200 should be returned with the body of whatever you successfully fetched. Not appropriate when the entity you're fetching doesn't exist. 202 is used when the server has begun work on an object but the object isn't fully ready yet. Certainly not the case here. You haven't begun, nor will you begin, construction of user 9 in response to a GET request. That breaks all sorts of rules. 400 is used in response to a poorly formatted HTTP request (for instance malformed http headers, incorrectly ordered segments, etc). This will almost certainly be handled by whatever framework you're using. You shouldn't have to deal with this unless you're writing your own server from scratch. Edit: Newer RFCs now allow for 400 to be used for semantically invalid requests.

维基百科对HTTP状态码的描述尤其有用。 您也可以在www.w3.org上看到HTTP/1.1 RFC2616文档中的定义

TL; diana:

如果在/users/9上没有找到用户，则应该返回404。 如果在/users中没有找到用户?如果Id =9，则应该返回204。

长版:

在回顾了我自己对这些状态代码的使用和本文中的示例之后，我不得不说，如果在/users/9的url上没有找到用户#9,404是适当的响应。

今天在我的系统中，我们的Application Insights日志中充满了数百条记录的404错误，这使我们的日志变得混乱，因为我们决定在/users/9没有相关数据时返回404错误。然而，这并不意味着我们在设置响应时的方法是不正确的，相反，我认为这意味着我们在设置路由时的方法是不正确的。

如果您希望端点获得大量流量，并且担心记录太多404错误，那么您应该更改路由以符合您想要的状态码，而不是强制使用不适当的状态码。

我们已经决定对我们的代码做2个更改:

通过expect /users改变我们的工作路线?id = 9 将我们的错误代码更改为204，这样404就不会填满我们的AI日志。

最后，API的架构师需要了解他们的API将如何被使用，以及哪种路由将适合于该用例。

我相信在/users/9的情况下，您请求的资源是用户本身，用户#9;您要求服务器响应一个标识为“9”的对象，该对象恰好存在于包含单词“user”的路径中。如果没有找到该对象，则应该得到404。

但是，如果调用/users?id=9，我觉得你所请求的资源是用户控制器，同时也提供了更多的专一性，这样它就不会返回所有用户的完整列表。您要求服务器响应一个可以通过查询字符串中定义的ID号识别的特定用户。因此，如果没有找到数据，204对我来说是有意义的，因为即使没有找到数据，控制器也是。

查询字符串方法还完成了一些我认为不仅有助于API开发人员，而且有助于客户端开发人员(特别是初级开发人员或继承这段代码或调用它的代码的未来开发人员):

It becomes immediately clear to anyone involved that 9 is an ID, not some arbitrary number. This point may seem moot in such a basic example, but consider a system that uses GUIDs as row ID's or allows you to get data by a person's name, or even a system that is returning info for specific ZIP/postal codes instead of row ID's. It would be useful for all developers involved if, at a glance, they knew whether that identifying parameter was a first, last, full name, or a ZIP/postal code instead of an ID.

为什么不用410呢?它表示所请求的资源不再存在，客户端希望永远不会对该资源发出请求，在您的例子中是users/9。

你可以在这里找到更多关于410的详细信息:https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html

在以前的项目中，我使用了404。如果没有用户9，则没有找到对象。因此404 Not Found是合适的。

如果对象存在，但没有数据，则为204 no Content。我认为在你的例子中，这个物体并不存在。

Just an addition from a developer that struggled many times with this situation. As you might have noticed it is always a discussion whether you return a 404 or 200 or 204 when a particular resource does not exist. The discussion above shows that this topic is pretty confusing and opinion based ( while there is a http-status-code standard existing ). I personally recommend, as it was not mentioned yet I guess, no matter how you decide DOCUMENT IT IN YOUR API-DEFINITION. Of course a client-side developer has in mind when he/she uses your particular "REST"- api to use his/her knowledge about Rest and expects that your api works this way. I guess you see the trap. Therefor I use a readme where I explicitly define in which cases I use which status code. This doesn't mean that I use some random definion. I always try to use the standard but to avoid such cases I document my usage. The client might think you are wrong in some specific cases but as it is documented, there is no need for additional discussions what saves time for you and the developer.

One sentence to the Ops question: 404 is a code that always comes in my mind when I think back about starting to develop backend-applications and I configured something wrong in my controller-route so that my Controller method is not called. With that in mind, I think if the request does reach your code in a Controller method, the client did a valid request and the request endpoint was found. So this is an indication not to use 404. If the db query returns not found, I return 200 but with an empty body.

起初，我认为204是有意义的，但经过讨论，我相信404是唯一真正正确的回答。考虑以下数据:

用户:约翰，彼得

METHOD  URL                      STATUS  RESPONSE
GET     /users                   200     [John, Peter]
GET     /users/john              200     John
GET     /unknown-url-egaer       404     Not Found
GET     /users/kyle              404     User Not found
GET     /users?name=kyle`        200     []
DELETE  /users/john              204     No Content

背景知识:

the search returns an array, it just didn't have any matches but it has content: an empty array. 404 is of course best known for url's that aren't supported by the requested server, but a missing resource is in fact the same. Even though /users/:name is matched with users/kyle, the user Kyle is not available resource so a 404 still applies. It isn't a search query, it is a direct reference by a dynamic url, so 404 it is. After suggestions in the comments, customizing the message of the 404 is another way of helping out the API consumer to even better distinguish between complete unknown routes and missing entities.

不管怎样，我的意见。