# Response - Change Status Code { #response-change-status-code }

You probably read before that you can set a default [Response Status Code](../tutorial/response-status-code.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

But in some cases you need to return a different status code than the default.

## Use case { #use-case }

For example, imagine that you want to return an HTTP status code of "OK" `200` by default.

  <exclude name="**/testing/**"/>
</source>

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    We used to set this only for packages that had manual supersource. That
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    assertNull(responseQueue.poll());
  }

  /**
   * Asserts that a prior call that had caused this thread to block or wait has since returned
   * normally.
   */
  public void assertPriorCallReturns(@Nullable String methodName) throws Exception {
    assertEquals(null, getResponse(methodName).getResult());
  }

  /**
   * Asserts that a prior call that had caused this thread to block or wait has since returned the

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This means that it will **always have a value**, it's just that sometimes the value could be `None` (or `null` in JSON).

That means that, clients using your API don't have to check if the value exists or not, they can **assume the field will always be there**, but just that in some cases it will have the default value of `None`.

/**
 * Describes a problem that was encountered during model building. A problem can either be an exception that was thrown
 * or a simple string message. In addition, a problem carries a hint about its source, e.g. the POM file that exhibits
 * the problem.
 *
 */
public interface ModelProblem extends BuilderProblem {

    /**
     * Enumeration of model versions that can be validated.

  <exclude name="**/testing/**"/>
</source>

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    We used to set this only for packages that had manual supersource. That
    worked everywhere that I know of except for one place: when running the GWT
    util.concurrent tests under Guava.

    The problem is that GWT responds poorly to two .gwt.xml files in the same
    Java package; see

  <exclude name="**/testing/**"/>
</source>

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    We used to set this only for packages that had manual supersource. That
    worked everywhere that I know of except for one place: when running the GWT
    util.concurrent tests under Guava.

    The problem is that GWT responds poorly to two .gwt.xml files in the same
    Java package; see

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

/**
 * ContentCache is a class that provides a way to cache content either in memory or in a file.
 * It implements the Closeable interface to ensure that resources are properly released.
 *
 * <p>This class supports two types of content caching:
 * <ul>
 *   <li>In-memory caching using a byte array</li>

 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *

        assertEquals(0, consumed, "readSetupWireFormat should always return 0");
    }

    @Test
    public void testWriteParametersWireFormat() {
        // Test that writeParametersWireFormat returns 0
        TransWaitNamedPipe pipe = new TransWaitNamedPipe("\\\\pipe\\testPipe");
        byte[] dst = new byte[100];

        int written = pipe.writeParametersWireFormat(dst, 0);