How to change status of JsonResponse in Django

Question

My API is returning a JSON object on error but the status code is HTTP 200:

response = JsonResponse({'status': 'false', 'message': message}) return response 

How can I change the response code to indicate an error?

Answer 1

JsonResponse normally returns HTTP 200, which is the status code for 'OK'. In order to indicate an error, you can add an HTTP status code to JsonResponse as it is a subclass of HttpResponse:

response = JsonResponse({'status':'false','message':message}, status=500)