Document error status codes returned for interactive message integrations

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Summary

Updates the interactive messages docs to reflect that Mattermost now preserves certain upstream HTTP status codes (rather than always returning 400) when an integration backing a button or menu fails, so API clients can honor retry semantics.

Related PRs

mattermost/mattermost#36700

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Walkthrough

This PR updates the interactive messages documentation. It revises the troubleshooting reference and expands the FAQ with error classifications, log indicators, and HTTP status mappings.

Changes

Interactive Message Error Handling Documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Error handling FAQ clarification site/content/integrate/plugins/interactive-messages/_index.md	The troubleshooting reference uses broader error wording. The FAQ documents connection failures, non-200 responses, invalid JSON, and mappings for 400, 429, 503, 502, and other 4xx responses.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4b4b4

The documentation may mislead API clients about handling 2xx and 3xx integration responses.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: documenting error status codes for interactive message integrations.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the documentation update and its purpose, including preserved HTTP status codes and retry semantics.
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• Commit unit tests in branch preserve_plugin_retry_status

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🟡 Minor · Document the complete non-200 mapping. · site/content/integrate/plugins/interactive-messages/_index.md:486-486

486-486: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the complete non-200 mapping.

The FAQ says this path applies when the integration does not return HTTP 200, but the mapping only describes 429, 503, 5xx, and 4xx responses. The implementation maps every remaining non-200 status to 400, including statuses such as 201, 204, and 3xx. Replace “other 4xx responses” with “other non-200 responses” to match the API contract. (github.com)

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In `@site/content/integrate/plugins/interactive-messages/_index.md` at line 486,
Update the non-200 status mapping documentation in the integration FAQ to say
“other non-200 responses” instead of “other 4xx responses,” while preserving the
documented handling for 429, 503, and other 5xx responses.

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In `@site/content/integrate/plugins/interactive-messages/_index.md`:
- Line 486: Update the non-200 status mapping documentation in the integration
FAQ to say “other non-200 responses” instead of “other 4xx responses,” while
preserving the documented handling for 429, 503, and other 5xx responses.

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