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Use when generating REST controllers, DTOs, success response contracts, pagination, HTTP status mapping, or API versioning. For RFC 9457 exception and error response formatting, use problem-details-rfc9457 unless the project explicitly requires a legacy error envelope.

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# REST API Conventions

## Project Contract

Inspect existing controllers, tests and OpenAPI before choosing a response contract.
Preserve the project's IDs, response shape and versioning strategy. Do not migrate unrelated
endpoints while adding one route. The envelope below is an optional convention for a project
that uses it; plain success DTOs are equally valid. A 204 response has no body.

Success and error formats are independent: an existing success envelope can coexist with
RFC 9457 errors. Use one consistent error policy; choose the legacy error examples below only
when the project already requires that format.

Example success envelope:

```json
{
  "success": true,
  "data": { },
  "error": null,
  "timestamp": "2026-04-13T10:00:00Z"
}
```

Error response:
```json
{
  "success": false,
  "data": null,
  "error": {
    "code": "ORDER_NOT_FOUND",
    "message": "Order with id 123 not found",
    "details": []
  },
  "timestamp": "2026-04-13T10:00:00Z"
}
```

## ApiResponse Wrapper

```java
@JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
public record ApiResponse<T>(
    boolean success,
    T data,
    ApiError error,
    Instant timestamp
) {
…

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