Best way to return status flag and message from a method in Java

Question

I have a deceptively simple scenario, and I want a simple solution, but it\'s not obvious which is \"most correct\" or \"most Java\".

Let\'s say I have a small authe

Answer 1

How about returning a string. Empty or Null for success. Error Message in case of failure. Simplest that would work. However not sure if it reads well.