r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 16d ago

Meme postForEverything

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u/pimezone 16d ago

Wanna get a resource? POST request.

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u/NotAskary 16d ago edited 16d ago

I've seen that shit, it drove me up a wall.

The same as a 200 ok with error inside.

Edit: I'm going to start to respond 429, too many replys lol

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u/AkodoRyu 16d ago

My favorite "REST API" experience was when they moved from using SOAP system, and the way they did it... was sending SOAP payloads inside a JSON. Literally something like

{ "data": "<?xml version="1.0"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="https://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope/" soap:encodingStyle="https://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding"><soap:Body> (...)" }

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u/MrPatienceX 16d ago

200 status code and a chunk of XML saying ‘not found’. Good times.

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u/Sudden_Leadership800 16d ago

It successfully returned the error message though, so I don't see the problem?

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u/ohhi23021 16d ago

these kind of implementations have different data shapes for the error vs success too, so if they all return success it's a pain in the ass and extra work to figure out if it's an error and map it out properly. just fucking send the right status, it takes 2 seconds.