Handle 403 error

Open ksauzz opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

We sometimes observed https://api.materialsproject.org/heartbeat responds a 403 error, then mp-api just raises JSONDecodeError. It would be nice to show users a 403 error, and what could happen such as rate limit or something.

JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

refs: https://matsci.org/t/pymatgen-ext-matproj-mpresterror-rest-query-returned-with-error-status-code-403-content-berror-code-1020/47992 https://matsci.org/t/mpresterror-rest-query-returned-with-error-status-code-403/792

Jun 16 '23 00:06 ksauzz

Yes, I agree with this. The client should communicate better when the API service appears to be unreachable.

Jun 20 '23 17:06 munrojm