On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Romain MB <rmannibucau_at_tomitribe.com>
wrote:
>
> > Map may have the same issue but in practice I don't see APIs using Map as
> > the return type. Instead people use a regular class. OTOH, Lists are
> common
> > because often REST APIs return collections of resources.
> >
> >
>
> Well saw it regularly on cloud solutions and devoxx API at least.
>
If I was a client developer for those APIs, I would use a Class instead of
a Map to convert the API JSON response.
Unless the API is too crazy (where the field names keep changing at random,
or are just too numerous), this remains a viable option that we will tell
the developers to use.