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[jsonb-spec users] [jsr367-experts] Re: Re: Re: [30-GenericTypeSupport] Proposal

From: Romain MB <rmannibucau_at_tomitribe.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 20:51:53 +0100

Le 13 mars 2015 19:50, "Inderjeet Singh" <inder_at_alumni.stanford.edu> a
écrit :
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> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Romain MB <rmannibucau_at_tomitribe.com>
wrote:
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>> > 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.
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>> Well saw it regularly on cloud solutions and devoxx API at least.
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> 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.
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Well that is in a perfect world. Not doable in previous samples. Think to a
schedule indexed by conferences hours or name or environment keys...