F# Type Providers and REST apis

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Is there any reason why the default plug and play F# type providers to web services is soap based wsdl? Is it because of a lack of formal contracts in REST? Such that each REST api may differ significantly and hence making a general REST provider difficult to provide?

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 18 '11 at 16:29

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Type providers need machine-readable type schema to do their jobs well.

answered Sep 18 '11 at 16:29

Brian

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score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 04 '11 at 08:39

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Type providers need schema. So you could use Open Data Protocol that is REST + schema. For that task you could use ODataTypeProvider that is already implemented.

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 18 '11 at 16:12

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I think that this is because there is no way to know how the API looks. Humans can read the documentation, but the Type Provider cannot. Other APIs have XML specifications, so they are easier.

answered Sep 18 '11 at 16:12

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F# Type Providers and REST apis

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