inveniosoftware / inveniosoftware/datacite

Handling of 422 Unprocessable Entity

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Attempting to POST an already registered DOI to DataCite results in a 422 Unprocessable Entity. However, `DataCiteError` (defined in `errors.py`) does not have a case for this scenario, so such a response ends up being cast as a DataCiteServerError, which is meant for 5xx responses. In other words, a user error is converted into a server error.

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