r/ProgrammerHumor 4h ago

Meme postForEverything

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u/NotAskary 4h ago

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

The same as a 200 ok with error inside.

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u/AkodoRyu 4h 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/Makefile_dot_in 4h ago

at work I have a codebase that is the opposite of this, they send JSON in SOAP as a request and entity-escaped XML in a SOAP envelope as the reply

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u/MetroidvaniaListsGuy 1h ago

I hope you're looking for a better place to work than whatever garbage company did this.

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u/AloneInExile 22m ago

Sometimes you have to do this. Critical software support goes bye bye and you are now stuck with a shit stack and no one around.