# ResponseKind

**Kind:** Type

**Source:** [`atloria-monorepo/libs/parser-core/src/openapi/response-shape.ts`](https://github.com/sherkety/atloria/blob/main/atloria-monorepo/libs/parser-core/src/openapi/response-shape.ts#L16)

What an endpoint returns when it does not return JSON.

56 of our 634 operations published no response at all, and chasing them as "unresolved schemas"
was the wrong frame — most of them do not have a JSON body to resolve. They delete a row and
return nothing, they redirect an OAuth callback, they stream a CSV or a PDF, or they take
`@Res()` and write to the socket themselves, at which point the return type describes the
framework object rather than the response.

A JSON schema forced onto any of those would be a lie. Silence is also wrong: "204 No Content"
and "we could not determine this" are different facts, and a reader deserves to be told which
one they are looking at. So this classifies the honest cases and leaves the genuinely unknown
explicitly unknown.

## Definition

```ts
| 'empty'
  /** Sends a redirect; the body is irrelevant and the Location header is the answer. */
  | 'redirect'
  /** A non-JSON payload whose media type we could read. */
  | 'binary'
  /** Takes `@Res()` and writes the response itself — the signature cannot describe it. */
  | 'manual'
```