Custom error message json object with flask-restful

People tend to overuse abort(), while in fact it is very simple to generate your own errors. You can write a function that generates custom errors easily, here is one that matches your JSON:

def make_error(status_code, sub_code, message, action):
    response = jsonify({
        'status': status_code,
        'sub_code': sub_code,
        'message': message,
        'action': action
    })
    response.status_code = status_code
    return response

Then instead of calling abort() do this:

@route("https://stackoverflow.com/")
def my_view_function():
    # ...
    if need_to_return_error:
        return make_error(500, 42, 'You idiots!...', 'redirect...')
    # ...