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From: Michael Mayo [m...@openstack.org]
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Crazy Idea for API Formats
On Mar 4, 2011, at 10:55 PM, Sandy Walsh wrote:
> Interesting ... do I get back an instance object or just a key/value dict?
I'm thinking an actual instance object. And we would provide code
rious languages.
> -S
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> From: Michael Mayo [m...@openstack.org]
> Subject: [Openstack] Crazy Idea for API Formats
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> All this talk about auth and making the API easy for developers to use got me
> thinking.
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> The two most popular formats for APIs are XML and JSON.
From: Michael Mayo [m...@openstack.org]
Subject: [Openstack] Crazy Idea for API Formats
All this talk about auth and making the API easy for developers to use got me
thinking.
The two most popular formats for APIs are XML and JSON.
XML is language neutral and sort of
Actually if you use XML and provide a schema you have zero parsing in Java,
.Net and any other language that provides strong support for XML binding. It's
actually a lot easier to use than serialization.
We serve two kinds of clients: Those that love XML and those that love JSON.
It's been my
All this talk about auth and making the API easy for developers to use got me
thinking.
The two most popular formats for APIs are XML and JSON.
XML is language neutral and sort of painful to read by a human. And writing an
XML parser sucks. It's not hard, but it's time consuming and annoying.
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