Re: SOAP in Pike?

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 2:12 AM, Pontus Östlund <[email protected]> wrote:
> SOAP is awesome if you are programming in Java or C# where there are tools to auto-generate entire API's for you from the WSDL files. But if you don't have that luxury it's just overly verbose and complex. I prefer REST API's with JSON :)
>

No kidding!

The last time I had to deal with an XML-based API, I put together a
little parser that turned it all into a load of
mappings/arrays/strings, just to give myself half a chance of writing
mildly readable code (because, of course, the info I wanted was about
fifty levels deep in the structure, too). Was a gross pile of steaming
excrement, though, and not something that belongs in the stdlib.

ChrisA