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		eropple on April 4, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Problems with Swagger > When does it make sense to issue API-specific client libraries for a plain ole RESTful API? Any time you have a statically-typed language consuming you. Having to write my own Jackson declarations to pull in your API to a JVM project or my own DataContract barf for a CLR one is a quick way to make me hate you, and me hating you means I'm already looking for an alternative that isn't you that gets out of my way.

pbreit on April 5, 2017 [–]

I sort of thought the opposite, that the client libraries are what is getting in the way.

eropple on April 5, 2017 | [–]

So you enjoy writing a bunch of boilerplate class files that are manual translations of somebody else's doc?

pbreit on April 5, 2017 | | [–]

No, I just like to get started coding API calls.

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