fix: Send response with 404 status when quering non-exist account

types/rest/http_status_table.go

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+package rest
+
+//TODO : Intergrate http status mapping for every REST API
+import (
+	"net/http"
+
+	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/client/context"
+	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/types/errors"
+)
+
+//HTTPStatusMappingTable is map to mapping an error type and a http status
+type HTTPStatusMappingTable map[string]map[uint32]int
+
+var (
+	table = HTTPStatusMappingTable{
+		errors.RootCodespace: {
+			9: http.StatusNotFound,
+		},
+	}
+)
+
+func parsingError(rawErr error) *errors.Error {
+	if rawErr == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	if err, ok := rawErr.(*context.Error); ok {
+		return errors.New(err.Codespace, err.Code, err.Message)
+	}
+	if err, ok := rawErr.(*errors.Error); ok {
+		return err
+	}
+	return errors.New(errors.UndefinedCodespace, 1, "internal")
+}
+
+//GetHTTPStatus is method to get http status for given error
+func GetHTTPStatusWithError(err error) int {
+	abciErr := parsingError(err)
+	if abciErr == nil {
+		return http.StatusOK
+	}
+	result := http.StatusInternalServerError
+	if codeTable, ok := table[abciErr.Codespace()]; ok {
+		if status, ok := codeTable[abciErr.ABCICode()]; ok {
+			result = status
+		}
+	}
+	return result
+}

x/auth/client/rest/query.go

@@ -37,15 +37,8 @@ func QueryAccountRequestHandlerFn(storeName string, cliCtx context.CLIContext) h
 
 		account, height, err := accGetter.GetAccountWithHeight(addr)
 		if err != nil {
-			// TODO: Handle more appropriately based on the error type.
-			// Ref: https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/issues/4923
-			if err := accGetter.EnsureExists(addr); err != nil {
-				cliCtx = cliCtx.WithHeight(height)
-				rest.PostProcessResponse(w, cliCtx, types.BaseAccount{})
-				return
-			}
-
-			rest.WriteErrorResponse(w, http.StatusInternalServerError, err.Error())
+			httpStatus := rest.GetHTTPStatusWithError(err)
+			rest.WriteErrorResponse(w, httpStatus, err.Error())
 			return
 		}