对于这个场景，HTTP 404是来自REST API的响应的响应代码 比如400,401,404,422不可处理实体

使用异常处理来检查完整的异常消息。

try{
  // call the rest api
} catch(RestClientException e) {
     //process exception
     if(e instanceof HttpStatusCodeException){
        String responseText=((HttpStatusCodeException)e).getResponseBodyAsString();
         //now you have the response, construct json from it, and extract the errors
         System.out.println("Exception :" +responseText);
     }

}

这个异常块为您提供由REST API抛出的正确消息

404只是HTTP响应代码。在此基础上，您可以提供一个响应体和/或其他带有开发人员将看到的更有意义的错误消息的报头。

和大多数事情一样，“视情况而定”。但对我来说，您的做法并不坏，并且没有违背HTTP规范本身。但是，让我们弄清楚一些事情。

首先，URI应该是不透明的。即使它们对人来说是不透明的，对机器来说也是不透明的。换句话说，http://mywebsite/api/user/13和http://mywebsite/restapi/user/13之间的差异与http://mywebsite/api/user/13和http://mywebsite/api/user/14之间的差异相同，即不相同的不是同一时期。因此，404完全适合http://mywebsite/api/user/14(如果没有这样的用户)，但不一定是唯一合适的响应。

You could also return an empty 200 response or more explicitly a 204 (No Content) response. This would convey something else to the client. It would imply that the resource identified by http://mywebsite/api/user/14 has no content or is essentially nothing. It does mean that there is such a resource. However, it does not necessarily mean that you are claiming there is some user persisted in a data store with id 14. That's your private concern, not the concern of the client making the request. So, if it makes sense to model your resources that way, go ahead.

There are some security implications to giving your clients information that would make it easier for them to guess legitimate URI's. Returning a 200 on misses instead of a 404 may give the client a clue that at least the http://mywebsite/api/user part is correct. A malicious client could just keep trying different integers. But to me, a malicious client would be able to guess the http://mywebsite/api/user part anyway. A better remedy would be to use UUID's. i.e. http://mywebsite/api/user/3dd5b770-79ea-11e1-b0c4-0800200c9a66 is better than http://mywebsite/api/user/14. Doing that, you could use your technique of returning 200's without giving much away.

统一资源标识符是指向资源的唯一指针。格式较差的URI不指向资源，因此对其执行GET操作将不会返回资源。404表示服务器没有找到任何与请求uri匹配的内容。如果你输入了错误的URI或坏的URI，这就是你的问题，也是你无法访问资源的原因，无论是HTML页面还是IMG。

如果资源不存在，请使用404。不要返回一个空的200。

这类似于未定义vs空字符串(例如。"")。虽然非常相似，但绝对有区别。

404表示该URI上不存在任何东西(就像编程中未定义的变量一样)。返回200且主体为空意味着这里确实存在某些东西，并且某些东西现在只是空的(就像编程中的空字符串)。

404并不意味着它是一个“坏URI”。有一些特殊的HTTP代码用于处理URI错误(例如414 Request-URI Too Long)。

404 Not Found在技术上意味着uri当前没有映射到某个资源。在您的示例中，我解释了对http://mywebsite/api/user/13的请求，该请求返回404，以暗示此url从未映射到资源。对于客户来说，这应该是谈话的结束。

To address concerns with ambiguity, you can enhance your API by providing other response codes. For example, suppose you want to allow clients to issue GET requests the url http://mywebsite/api/user/13, you want to communicate that clients should use the canonical url http://mywebsite/restapi/user/13. In that case, you may want to consider issuing a permanent redirect by returning a 301 Moved Permanently and supply the canonical url in the Location header of the response. This tells the client that for future requests they should use the canonical url.