#API
Shall a (rest) API receive JSON or "standard" POST params?
This topic came up today when we discussed the #crewmeister API, and made me think. Until I remembered that we once in a project used to use the pure POST params, which are basically key-value pairs. And the question also reminded me of my PHP times, there the server-side knew how to handle a key which looks like user[0]
and builds and array. But when I ran into that problem back then we used to use python and there we didn't have that.
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