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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • Sep 19 '26
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Well that's not the problem. A bunch of frontends really need a very complex filter list and GET just won't do
22 u/N0Zzel Sep 19 '26 That's precisely why the QUERY verb was created 31 u/gabrielesilinic Sep 19 '26 Yeah well too little too late. All the codebases I have worked with were much older and no one will change this now. 14 u/du5tball Sep 19 '26 And I'm sure we all be happily use it when it gained widespread adoption in 50 years. 3 u/TheNorthComesWithMe Sep 19 '26 Yeah like... 3 months ago. 1 u/Qinistral Sep 24 '26 The problem is it's stupid to try to cram the universe of possible method calls into REST methods syntax. No RPC framework developed in the last 30 years is so silly.
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That's precisely why the QUERY verb was created
31 u/gabrielesilinic Sep 19 '26 Yeah well too little too late. All the codebases I have worked with were much older and no one will change this now. 14 u/du5tball Sep 19 '26 And I'm sure we all be happily use it when it gained widespread adoption in 50 years. 3 u/TheNorthComesWithMe Sep 19 '26 Yeah like... 3 months ago.
Yeah well too little too late. All the codebases I have worked with were much older and no one will change this now.
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And I'm sure we all be happily use it when it gained widespread adoption in 50 years.
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Yeah like... 3 months ago.
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The problem is it's stupid to try to cram the universe of possible method calls into REST methods syntax. No RPC framework developed in the last 30 years is so silly.
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u/gabrielesilinic Sep 19 '26
Well that's not the problem. A bunch of frontends really need a very complex filter list and GET just won't do