API wrapper best practices?

[Ashley Hindmarsh]

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> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:04:28 +0000
> From: Sam Kington <sam at illuminated.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: API wrapper best practices?
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> On 24 Mar 2013, at 13:13, Ashley Hindmarsh <ash+perl at best-scarper.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > I guess the holy grail is something that takes the API schema and builds
> > the classes on-the-fly, and is closer to what Dave Hodg is after.
>
> People thought of that, and now we have SOAP. So be careful for what you
> wish for.
>


I was using SOAP::WSDL as it reached v2.0 (ca. 2007).

It features a complete wrapping of XML Schema data types, from which a Perl
wrapper (accessors etc) can be generated, although you have to live with
that minimalism (e.g. all arrays + containers - no mappings).
Just wonder if the XML Schema wrapping could be extracted for use with
RESTful APIs which have well-defined schemas (I guess I may have just
volunteered)

  Ash



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