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Handler Binding & Content Negotiation

How a framework binds typed handler arguments from path, query, headers and body, then maps the return value to a response. Interviewers probe it because a wrong precedence rule fails silently.

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How would you set a codebase-wide convention for handler return types so response mapping stays predictable across hundreds of endpoints?

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Pick a default and make deviation visible: plain returns where only the body varies, a wrapper wherever status or headers do, error paths always explicit. Then enforce it mechanically and re-check on every framework upgrade.

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