---
id: SCH-24
family: GR-SCHEMA
level: core
profiles: [storage-api, editor-client]
posture: normative-target
added: "1.0"
changed: "1.0"
source: https://flowdrop.io/spec/rules/gr-schema/sch-24
specification: FlowDrop Workflow Specification 1.0-draft
licence: CC BY 4.0
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# SCH-24 — A node type that fails to build does not fail the request

*GR-SCHEMA (Part I) · level: core · profiles: storage-api, editor-client · added in 1.0*

One unbuildable node type costs the reader that node's metadata, not the whole response.

## The rule

> **Normative.** This is the rule.
>
> 1. Where a node type cannot be built from its own declaration or stored data, the failure is contained: the request being served still succeeds, the node is returned unenriched (SCH-25), and the failure is recorded where an operator can find it.
>
> 2. This governs failures attributable to the node type.
>
> 3. Behaviour when an implementation's own extension code violates the contract it was written against is outside this specification, which describes conforming implementations and not malfunctioning ones.

## Related rules

- Names: SCH-25

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