Respond to invalid api routes with JSON #11166

arches/app/views/api.py

@@ -113,6 +113,13 @@ def dispatch(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
         return super(APIBase, self).dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
 
 
+class API404(View):
+    def dispatch(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
+        return JSONErrorResponse(
+            _("Request failed"), _("Route not found"), status=HTTPStatus.NOT_FOUND
+        )
+
+
 class GetFrontendI18NData(APIBase):
     def get(self, request):
         user_language = get_language()

arches/urls.py

@@ -726,6 +726,7 @@
         api.TransformEdtfForTile.as_view(),
         name="transform_edtf_for_tile",
     ),
+    re_path("^api", api.API404.as_view(), name="api_404"),
 ]
 
 # This must be included in core to keep webpack happy, but cannot be appended when running a project.

releases/7.6.0.md

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Arches 7.6.0 Release Notes
 - 10558 Combine templates for Arches project and applications and move several dotfiles to root
 - 10490 Fixes an issue where webpack receives multiple build calls when running in a container
 - Handle missing ontologies in JSON-LD api response
+- 11166 Invalid API routes now respond with JSON instead of HTML
 - 10710 Workflow history API: return 400 (instead of 401) for attempts to update completed workflows
 - 10083 Fix whatisthis command
 - 9768 Filter out tiles created during resource creation from activity stream API

tests/views/api_tests.py

@@ -16,13 +16,15 @@
 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 """
 
+import json
 import os
+
 from arches.app.utils.i18n import LanguageSynchronizer
 from tests import test_settings
 from tests.base_test import ArchesTestCase
 from django.urls import reverse
 from django.core import management
-from django.test.client import RequestFactory, Client
+from django.test.client import RequestFactory
 from django.test.utils import captured_stdout
 
 from arches.app.views.api import APIBase
@@ -113,6 +115,13 @@ def test_api_base_view(self):
             response = view(request)
         self.assertEqual(request.GET.get("ver"), "2.1")
 
+    def test_api_404(self):
+        with self.assertLogs("django.request", level="WARNING"):
+            response = self.client.get(reverse("api_404"))
+        self.assertEqual(
+            set(json.loads(response.content)), {"message", "status", "success", "title"}
+        )
+
     def test_api_resources_archesjson(self):
         """
         Test that resources POST and PUT accept arches-json format data.