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eecc on Dec 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: API Practices If You Hate Your Customers

Ehm you shouldn’t GET for the result, but for the job descriptor. If you really need to GET the result then you should expect an HTTP 4xx or 3xx response.

There is no justification for NULLs

leetrout on Dec 12, 2019 [–]

If your API is RESTful. There are plenty of “rest” APIs out there that are really JSON-based RPC endpoints.

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