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Re:Best practices for REST API design (2020) by mikewhy on Monday February 22, 2021 @03:49PM (#26230403)
No need for it, from your perspective, sure. It totally solves a lot of shortcomings your API is forcing on its consumers though.
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Re:Best practices for REST API design (2020) by simiones on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:14AM (#26236403)
In general, my consumers don't want to learn my API. If they find shortcomings, they don't want to work around them by learning to query my bad models, they will call and complain that my model is bad and that I have to fix it in the next version or they'll look elsewhere.

At least, this has been our experience with B2B software sales.

Of course, YMMV depending on market etc.

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