Postel’s Principle is a Bad Idea

Re:Postel’s Principle is a Bad Idea by btilly on Sunday February 03, 2013 @08:24PM (#5161952)

I can't read this comment without thinking about SOAP.

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Re:Postel’s Principle is a Bad Idea by salgernon on Sunday February 03, 2013 @10:20PM (#5162262)

I could kiss you for that.

If the use of a format for interoperability can only be reasonably used by a single vendor, it has no benefit over a binary protocol.

The entire SOAP and XML-RPC space is postels law writ large.

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Re:Postel’s Principle is a Bad Idea by btilly on Monday February 04, 2013 @12:14AM (#5162588)

Yup.

I had to only face the true horrors on one occasion, for a Responsys integration. They had the C# examples and the Java examples. The API that they offered for the two had differences because some methods would work with one, some with the other.

I'm a Perl programmer, so tried that. After all you just have to translate the language, right? Wrong. After banging my head against that mess for a week or so, I finally gave up, wrote the communication in Java, and had a Perl launcher for it.

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