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Arif Nadeem
Arif Nadeem

Reputation: 8604

Should I still support XML response in my Web-Service?

I am not posting this question to start arguments of any kind, I just want to know thoughts of experienced developers, I think this question is related to programming and so I am asking this on SO.

I am designing web-services for my new project, which I plan to open source in future, it is now common these days that consumers of almost all API's are using JSON as their De-Facto format, so my question is should I still support XML in my API's?

I will be using Play framework for my webservices and so I would have to explicitly handle JSON and XML format (I mean seperately) and I want to avoid this.

Would it be appropriate to enforce use of JSON for the consumers of my API?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 69

Answers (1)

Darrel Miller
Darrel Miller

Reputation: 142252

If you are trying to support client platforms that do not have good support for JSON then you should consider supporting XML.

However, client developer preference is not IMHO a valid reason for supporting multiple formats.

Upvotes: 1

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