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# Singapore api-production.data.gov.sg (v2 Datasets API)

Listing and metadata work cleanly for real IDs:

```
curl '.../v2/public/api/datasets?page=1'
-> HTTP/2 200, {"code":0,"data":{"datasets":[{"datasetId":"d_000598f9...",
   "name":"Primary Inputs By Final Demand ...", "status":"active", ...}]}}

curl '.../v2/public/api/datasets/d_000598f9f69718ffd6c77ae367a5d84f/metadata'
-> HTTP/2 200, {"code":0,"data":{"datasetId":"d_000598f9...", "name":"...", ...}}
```

An unrecognized endpoint path (e.g. `/poll-download` called directly
rather than via the documented `initiate-download` flow) gets a generic
routing 404:

```
curl '.../v2/public/api/datasets/<id>/poll-download'
-> HTTP/2 404, {"message":"Resource not found. The API endpoint you
   have called might be invalid."}
```

But a **valid endpoint with a well-formed, plausible-but-nonexistent**
dataset ID and a **deliberately garbage** dataset ID return the exact same
error shape — no way to distinguish "this ID never existed" from
"malformed ID":

```
curl '.../v2/public/api/datasets/d_3b5542f5dbc1f64917a4e47ec3e71f68/metadata'
-> HTTP/2 404, {"error":"No table found for dataset ID: d_3b5542f5dbc1f64917a4e47ec3e71f68"}

curl '.../v2/public/api/datasets/d_bogus123xyz/metadata'
-> HTTP/2 404, {"error":"No table found for dataset ID: d_bogus123xyz"}
```

Both bodies differ only by echoing back whatever ID was sent — same
`error` key, same wording, same status — so a caller can never tell from
the response alone whether an ID they got from elsewhere (an old link, a
cached reference) was ever valid.

**How observed:** 2026-10-05T08:04Z, curl 8, plain GET, no auth.

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