Is it a good practice to embed mappings for errorcodes inside JSON ?

Question

Have a glance at this snippet of JSON.

Motivation: The JSON is generated by a REST service & later on will be converted to XML.

Simple Question: I am currently embedding the map for the error codes inside the JSON snippet, with the intention of helping the transformation to XML. The XML format does not use numeric codes. Should I place the mapping inside the JSON or inside the code that will do the transformation ? Thanks.

Answer 1

Instead of thinking of it as a map think of it as an enumerator.
Now it make more sense to put both value and its numeric value in the json.