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Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are a couple I have in mind. Like many techies, I am a huge fan of RSS for content distribution and XMPP for federated communication.

The really niche one I like is S-expressions as a data format and configuration in place of json, yaml, toml, etc.

I am a big fan of Plaintext formats, although I wish markdown had a few more features like tables.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Problem Details for HTTP APIs - I have to work and integrate with a lot of different APIs and different kinda implementations of error handling. Everyone seems to be inventing their own flavor of returning errors.

My life would be so much easier if everyone just used some 'global unified' way to returning errors, all in the same way

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Please guys, stop using line-breaks mid-sentence. It's not the 90's anymore, viewers generally can wrap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe a bad markdown viewer?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

~~viewer~~ generator?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, in general the markdown format suggests using line breaks in the middle of paragraphs to make the code just as readable as the output. That’s why two line breaks is what creates a new paragraph. So it’s the viewer showing it incorrectly here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

The screenshot is of the website ietf.org , which doesn't seem to be markdown.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That would be nice. I have implemented this in the past but never once encountered an API that used it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Best is when the API doesn't match a PDF and says "500: Internal Error"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Saving...

I made my first API at work last year (still making) and always saw myself looking for input on making a consistent way to return errors, with no useful input from the senior programmers or the API users. This is my second biggest problem, the first being variable and function names of course.

If I were to do anything related to HTTP, I now have something to look at.