Transaction Failed

This error occurs when a client submits a transaction that was well-formed but was not included into the ledger due to some other failure. For example, a transaction may fail if:

  • The source account for transaction cannot pay the minimum fee.
  • The sequence number is incorrect.
  • One of the contained operations has failed such as a payment operation that overdraws the paying account.

In almost every case, this error indicates that the transaction submitted in the initial request will never succeed. There is one exception: a transaction that fails with the tx_bad_seq result code (as expressed in the result_code field of the error) may become valid in the future if the sequence number it used was too high.


Attributes

As with all errors Horizon returns, transaction_failed follows the Problem Details for HTTP APIs draft specification guide and thus has the following attributes: draft specification guide and thus has the following attributes:

Description Type Attribute
The identifier for the error. This is a URL that can be visited in the browser URL Type
A short title describing the error String Title
An HTTP status code that maps to the error Number Status
A more detailed description of the error String Detail
A token that uniquely identifies this request. Allows server administrators to correlate a client report with server log files String Instance

In addition, the following additional data is provided in the extras field of the error:

Description Type Attribute
A base64-encoded representation of the TransactionEnvelope XDR whose failure triggered this response String envelope_xdr
A base64-encoded representation of the TransactionResult XDR returned by stellar-core when submitting this transactions String result_xdr
The transaction result code returned by stellar-core String result_codes.transaction
An array of strings, representing the operation result codes for each operation in the submitted transaction, if available Array result_codes.operations