How exactly do you express complex data structures? I mean, really complex, like .NET services? Like MapPoint.NET, for example?

And if you cook up a REST-based scheme for a complex type, how do you express more than one in the same request? I did a project while at my last job that interfaced with MapPoint. Their structures are not huge, but they are complex and nested. And we frequently sent multiples of the same type in a request (start and end point, to obtain driving directions between the two– two instances of a type that was complex and multi-layered).

There is a finite limit to the URI. There’s a limit to POST data as well, but it’s measured in a greater order of magnitude.

There will always be a place for something like REST in simple services like Amazon, etc. But this constant “SOAP is eeeeevil because I can solve all my problems with REST” is really getting old. Sorry to be so harsh, but just because your tasks are simple-enough for REST, doesn’t mean everyone else’s are as well.

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