# What does this PR do?
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The purpose of this PR is to eliminate hardcoded status codes in
server's responses and replace it by `httpx.codes` functionality for
better consistency across the whole project and improvement in code
readability.
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Run `./scripts/unit-tests.sh`
# What does this PR do?
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The purpose of this PR is to make the behavior DELETE API endpoints be
consistent with standard RESTful conventions and eliminate confusion for
API consumers.
Old Behavior
```
HTTP Status: 200 OK
Response Body: null
```
Eg. `curl -X DELETE http://localhost:8321/v1/shields/test-shield`
`null% `
`INFO 2025-08-12 16:11:57,932 console_span_processor:65 telemetry:
15:11:57.929 [INFO] ::1:59805 - "DELETE /v1/shields/test-shield
HTTP/1.1" 200 `
Updated Behavior
```
HTTP Status: 204 No Content
Response Body: empty (no body)
```
Eg. `curl -X DELETE http://localhost:8321/v1/shields/test-shield`
`INFO 2025-08-12 16:18:16,645 console_span_processor:62 telemetry:
15:18:16.637 [INFO] ::1:60283 - "DELETE /v1/shields/test-shield
HTTP/1.1" 204 `
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Closes#3090
## Test Plan
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Run `./scripts/unit-tests.sh`
As the title says. Distributions is in, Templates is out.
`llama stack build --template` --> `llama stack build --distro`. For
backward compatibility, the previous option is kept but results in a
warning.
Updated `server.py` to remove the "config_or_template" backward
compatibility since it has been a couple releases since that change.
