json

[Steven Bristol]

Is anyone using the json format of the api?

[Jake Howerton]

I was about to start, is its future up in the air?

[Steven Bristol]

No, we will always support it. We're currently doing a redesign and
what I discovered was that json api is kinda messed up. Sometimes it
even returns xml :(.

We're fixing all of this in the redesign but some of the error
messages will be changing from arrays to hashes.

The redesign should launch in a couple of months. Let's work together
so we'll try to fix problems you find now, although I do think some
work will be required when we launch the redesign.

Changes include: different structure for errors, response codes
changing (they are different in rails 3) (from 200 to 201 or 204),
empty response (just the code) when updates, creates, destroys are
successful (empty because you already have the data).

None of this is set in stone yet. What are your thoughts?

cheers,
steve

[Robert Kaufman]

I have a few small tools that were using the API at one point, but as our workflow evolved (ie I stopped doing everything myself) they've fallen in to disuse.  I'm excited to see an updated API and I promise not to come screaming at you about changes just because they are different ;-)

Rob

On Jun 1, 2012, at 6:11 , Steven Bristol wrote:

Is anyone using the json format of the api?

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[Steven Bristol]

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Jake Howerton <jake.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually just ran into a case where there is no JSON representation
> (line_items), are most of the changes going to be bringing the JSON closer
> to the XML representations?
>
> Since I am just starting with this, I am happy to use XML for now.  I
> imagine you guys would want to essentially have equivalent representations
> for both formats.  Also, if you guys are revamping the API, webhook
> callbacks would be my #1 feature request.
>
> -Jake
>
>


Yes, making the json match the xml. I'll fix the line items soon.
Thanks for the info.

steve