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feat: adds support to http problem details - rfc7807 #1786

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What does this PR do?

adds supports to handle error objects conforming with the http
problem details spec (rfc7807)
.

The spec defines a status field (instead of statusCode) and a
application/problem+json content type. Code will prefer the current
behavior of sending application/json if statusCode is present.

adds supports to handle error objects comforming with the http
problem details spec (RFC7807). the spec defines a `status` field
instead of `statusCode` and a `application/problem+json` content
type.
@@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@ Server.prototype._routeErrorResponse = function _routeErrorResponse(
}

// only automatically send errors that are known (e.g., restify-errors)
if (err instanceof Error && _.isNumber(err.statusCode)) {
if (err instanceof Error && _.isNumber(err.statusCode || err.status)) {
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exactly, and restify-errors doesn't conform to rfc7807, which defines status. The problem is that it assumes that users are indeed using restify-errors and don't give them the ability to follow the standard.

This PR keeps statusCode for backward compatibility with restify-errors but allows restify to return the correct content type application/problem+json when status is used and no statusCode is present

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class NotFound extends Error {
  constructor(detail) {
    this.title = 'Not Found';
    this.type = 'https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/404';
    this.status = 404;
    this.detail = detail || 'Resource not found';
  }
  
  toJSON() {
    return this;
  }
}

this will conform with rfc7807 and will hit that code with status

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You know what? It doesn't really need to "have a status property instead of a statusCode" to conform to the rfc. I was mainly using status property as a way to identify that was an error message complying with the rfc and sending the correct content-type.

But we can have a statusCode property in the error object and on the toJSON method that I serialize it to status instead, but I would need to find a way to set the application/problem+json content type and still keep backward compatibility. Any thoughts on this?

@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ function patch(Response) {
// If the body is an error object and we were not given a status code,
// try to derive it from the error object, otherwise default to 500
if (!code && body instanceof Error) {
code = body.statusCode || 500;
code = body.statusCode || body.status || 500;
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when is this status?

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