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[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 39 points 8 months ago (5 children)

If you have decent documentation you shouldn't need an api client. https://justuse.org/curl/

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[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

My evangelism has worked evil laughter

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[–] dhruv3006@lemmy.world [S] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Well having decent documentation is kind of rare.

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[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

But is providing a special client for your api really less work than fixing your documentation?

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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 point 8 months ago* (1 child)

I occasionally use curl, and it’s annoying when you have secrets that need to rotate regularly or you need to change the middle of a URL. Also: Fuck quoting in the shell.

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[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I put the secrets in environment variables, I don't what them to show up in the shell history anyway. Quoting can be a bit anything if you need nested quotes, but I hardly ever need that with curl.

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