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# Responses

### Content-Type Header

All responses are returned in JSON format. We specify this by sending the `Content-Type` header.

### Status Codes

Below is a table containing descriptions of the various status codes we currently support against various resources.

| Response Code | Description                    |
| ------------- | ------------------------------ |
| 200           | OK / Partial Success           |
| 201           | Resource Created               |
| 202           | Accepted                       |
| 400           | Bad Request / Validation Error |
| 401           | Unauthorized                   |
| 403           | Forbidden                      |
| 404           | Resource Not Found             |
| 405           | Method Not Allowed             |
| 406           | Not Acceptable                 |
| 422           | Unprocessable Entity           |
| 429           | Too Many Requests              |
| 500           | Internal Server Error          |

### Pagination

When a request is made with a pagination query, the meta data is included in the response to allow for easy traversal of previous, current, first, and last page of the data set.

```json
{
    "data": [
        // Response data 
    ],
    "meta": {
        "total_pages": 100,
        "total_rows": 2000,
        "order": "DESC",
        "order_by": "resource_field",
        "limit": 20,
        "offset": 0,
        "next_key": ""
    }
}
```