From 0ed76215b49aac1f745e9cb5e55ff1591ea57555 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: eikaramba <eikaramba@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2021 03:59:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] set statuscode to 204 if no content is send (#10569)

* set statuscode to 204 if no content is send

this is currently wrong for the DELETE Http Method in directus, which sends 200 status code although no content is served

* make linter happy

Co-authored-by: Rijk van Zanten <rijkvanzanten@me.com>

Co-authored-by: Rijk van Zanten <rijkvanzanten@me.com>
---
 api/src/middleware/respond.ts | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/api/src/middleware/respond.ts b/api/src/middleware/respond.ts
index 385943bba3..d48b1ad458 100644
--- a/api/src/middleware/respond.ts
+++ b/api/src/middleware/respond.ts
@@ -80,8 +80,10 @@ export const respond: RequestHandler = asyncHandler(async (req, res) => {
 
 	if (Buffer.isBuffer(res.locals.payload)) {
 		return res.end(res.locals.payload);
-	} else {
+	} else if (res.locals.payload) {
 		return res.json(res.locals.payload);
+	} else {
+		return res.status(204).end();
 	}
 });