From ffcd7553d708c775127946dfe638cba0cda34312 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: marty hiatt <martianhiatus@riseup.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 12:08:53 +0200
Subject: comment re instance JSON error

---
 lisp/mastodon-http.el | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lisp/mastodon-http.el b/lisp/mastodon-http.el
index 1b624ee..39c1036 100644
--- a/lisp/mastodon-http.el
+++ b/lisp/mastodon-http.el
@@ -249,6 +249,10 @@ Callback to `mastodon-http--get-response-async', usually
                       (string-prefix-p "\n[" json-string)))
              (error "%s" json-string))
             (t
+             ;; instance may return error in JSON e.g. ((error . "Record not
+             ;; found")) for a null endpoint. but we don't error here because
+             ;; sometimes we just want to check for such an error in an
+             ;; if/cond.
              `(,(json-read-from-string json-string) . ,headers))))))
 
 (defun mastodon-http--process-headers ()
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