• Michael R (unregistered)

    oh man, this reminds me when I was working for a startup and we integrated with another company. I was sitting down with their CTO and asked about the data format. He told me we will get a file a day and it is CSV, which was totally fine by me. So they SCPed the first file and I had a look and everything was in XML.

  • Hanzito (unregistered)

    Did it happen to be the cheapest offer?

  • Vera (unregistered) in reply to Hanzito

    Wouldn't surprise me. Everyone in management wants front-row tickets for a dime, and money talks loudly.

  • Hasseman (unregistered)

    Luckily, they're not using SGML ...

  • (nodebb)

    Perhaps it's just me, but hearing/seeing "RESTful API" infuriates me wildly. It is neither cute nor punny. And besides, that would make it "Representational State Transferful API" which is just stupid.

  • löchlein deluxe (unregistered)

    Oh the flashbacks… latin1 data base64-encoded into an attribute, sent as an UTF8 SOAP request. Bonus points: the data actually had to be 7bit-clean as well. (In retrospect, that was not the worst CA we used of the last three. The worst is always the one you currently have.)

  • (nodebb) in reply to The Beast in Black

    This reminds me of whole thing about "REST API" being a misnomer because "REST" was defined for user interaction and navigation, so anything designed for software interaction isn't actually REST.

    "REST API" has become its own thing meaning something like "Sessionless web API using JSON and HTTP verbs".

  • (nodebb) in reply to Medinoc

    Now I feel better for not being able to figure out what REST stands for. Turns out that it's because the whole name doesn't at all describe what it is.

  • (nodebb)

    Not the worst I've seen.

    I have to talk to an accounting package online, I talk to the REST API which encapsulates the XML that I want the accounting package to actually run.

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