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Re:Microsoft REST API Guidelines by jmull on Friday November 22, 2019 @04:39PM (#21610379)
How could someone use an API correctly without understanding it?
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Re:Microsoft REST API Guidelines by alkonaut on Friday November 22, 2019 @04:53PM (#21610513)
The client SDK exposes just the actual API and not the web API which is typically much more complex.

I really don’t want to worry about setting http headers to make an add-if-not-exists call for example. The API in a client library with a method “TryAdd(...)” is understandable as an API, and the setting of headers and 4XX code you might receive on a duplicate is just returned as false.

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