Problem: A duplicate tx may result in HTTP 500.

* Improve parsing of errors received from Tendermint RPC.
bigchaindb · Sep 13, 2018 · c68fab6 · c68fab6
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commit c68fab6
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diff --git a/bigchaindb/lib.py b/bigchaindb/lib.py
@@ -100,7 +100,14 @@ def _process_post_response(self, response, mode):
 
         error = response.get('error')
         if error:
-            return (500, error)
+            status_code = 500
+            message = error.get('message', 'Internal Error')
+            data = error.get('data', '')
+
+            if 'Tx already exists in cache' in data:
+                status_code = 400
+
+            return (status_code, message + ' - ' + data)
 
         result = response['result']
         if mode == self.mode_commit: