Production error handling for FastAPI — exception handlers, structured error
96
96%
Does it follow best practices?
Impact
98%
6.12xAverage score across 5 eval scenarios
Passed
No known issues
{
"context": "Tests whether the agent proactively applies FastAPI error handling best practices when building an order management API. The task describes a state machine and business rules that naturally produce errors, but says nothing about exception handlers, error response formatting, or validation customization -- the agent should add these on its own.",
"type": "weighted_checklist",
"checklist": [
{
"name": "Custom exception classes defined",
"description": "Agent defines custom exception classes (e.g. NotFoundError, BusinessRuleError, InvalidStateTransition) rather than using bare HTTPException with string details throughout. The agent was NOT asked to create custom exceptions.",
"max_score": 12
},
{
"name": "Exception handler for custom errors registered",
"description": "Agent registers @app.exception_handler for custom exception types that returns structured JSON with a machine-readable code and message. The agent was NOT asked to register exception handlers.",
"max_score": 14
},
{
"name": "RequestValidationError handler registered",
"description": "Agent registers @app.exception_handler(RequestValidationError) to produce structured validation errors with field-level detail, replacing FastAPI's default 422 format. The agent was NOT asked to customize validation errors.",
"max_score": 14
},
{
"name": "Generic Exception catch-all handler",
"description": "Agent registers @app.exception_handler(Exception) that catches unexpected errors and returns a safe generic message. The agent was NOT asked about catch-all error handling.",
"max_score": 14
},
{
"name": "Consistent error response structure",
"description": "All error responses use the same JSON shape with a code/type and message, whether the error is a validation failure, not-found, invalid state transition, or unexpected server error.",
"max_score": 12
},
{
"name": "No internal details leaked in errors",
"description": "Error responses for unexpected failures contain no Python tracebacks, file paths, or raw exception messages -- only a safe generic message.",
"max_score": 8
},
{
"name": "Semantically correct HTTP status codes",
"description": "Agent uses appropriate status codes: 404 for order not found, 409 or 422 for invalid state transitions, 400/422 for validation errors (empty items, invalid quantity), 500 for unexpected errors.",
"max_score": 10
},
{
"name": "Server-side error logging",
"description": "The catch-all handler logs the real error using logging, structlog, or similar before returning the generic response. The agent was NOT asked to add logging.",
"max_score": 8
},
{
"name": "Validation errors include field-level detail",
"description": "The RequestValidationError handler returns per-field error information (field name and what went wrong) rather than a single opaque error string.",
"max_score": 8
}
]
}