Re:Ask HN: What's the worst API you've run into?
by africajam on Friday December 23, 2016 @06:13AM
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RETS, (Real Estate Transaction Standard) without a doubt. Its an ancient xml protocol that is still important today but really painful to work with!
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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst API you've run into?
by ohyeshedid on Sunday December 25, 2016 @12:40AM
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Seconded. To be fair, though, it's often not the API itself but the mapping and strange restrictions tied into access to it. Also, the often missing documentation of what is mapped to where, and why. I'll never touch it again!