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omgtehlion on Dec 11, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: API Practices If You Hate Your Customers

> returning a null array to represent no items, and returning a single object without an array to represent one item

this happens when you add JSON version for old XML-based APIs (seen this multiple times)

purple_ducks on Dec 11, 2019 [–]

> this happens when you add JSON version for old XML-based APIs (seen this multiple times)

...without using an XSD schema. With a schema,not an issue

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