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 Response messages must be self descriptive. A good error message response might look something like this:
 ```
 {
-“code”: 1234,
-“message” : “Something bad happened“,
-“description” : “More details”
+"code": 1234,
+"message" : "Something bad happened",
+"description" : "More details"
 }
 ```
 or for validation errors: