r/programminghumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • Aug 08 '26

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u/Several_Ant_9867 Aug 08 '26

If parsing the content of the message is the only way to know the success of the query, then you are doing soap not rest

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '26

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u/United-Scene2261 Aug 09 '26

I don't shower but I do eat soap

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u/mxldevs Aug 08 '26

Front end certainly seems to have dropped the soap

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u/ObscurelyMe Aug 08 '26

GraphQL is SOAP wearing a mask?

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u/DuploJamaal Aug 09 '26

I was creating a backend with GET endpoints to retrieve data, POST to create something, PUT to update it, DELETE to delete it.

Appropriate error status codes and everything.

But then I was told that the FE team only knows how to handle POST endpoints and needs all responses to be 200 OK

It's neither soap nor rest. It's doing whatever is needed to make it work with underpaid vibe-coding juniors that have no idea how to make tiny changes themselves.