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API Inconsistencies
In my opinion, one of the hallmarks of a good API is that it is self-consistent. It establishes easy-to-remember conventions and then follows them.
As I'm trying to adopt the 2.0 API, I'm finding …
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Enumerated types documentation in 1.1 API
I'm starting to implement requesting question and user activity in my framework, but the new 1.1 API documentation doesn't seem to indicate what the possible return values are for the fields any more. …
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Any guarantees on JSON string encoding?
According to the JSON specification, JSON can be returned in one of five string encodings:
UTF-8 (the default encoding)
UTF-16 Little Endian
UTF-16 Big Endian
UTF-32 Little Endian
UTF-32 Big Endian
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Documentation sorted by return type
Right now the documentation is pretty terribly organized. For example, consider the things under the "Users" heading:
/users => returns Users
/users/{ids} => returns Users
/users/{ids}/answers => r …
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Documentation sorted by return type
OK, I've just discovered that at the bottom of each "type" page, there's a list with this information. For example: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/types/user#methods This is insanely useful. Bu …
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Timeline results contain redundant information?
Can I get a confirmation that the response /users/{id}/timeline contains redundant information, namely:
If the action is: | Then the timeline_type is always:
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Retrieving comments received by a user
You can request a user's questions and answers, and include comments=true as part of the query. This will include all of the comments for the post in question. This query is also limitable via the s …
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Are these requests guaranteed the return the same results?
Going over the API, there seems to be some overlap when it comes to expressing a predicate in a URL.
For example, let's say I want to fetch some questions from stackoverflow.com that have the tag "co …
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Is there a difference between "newest" and "creation"?
When I look at some API endpoints, say /questions/tagged/{tags} and /questions/{id}, I see that the former can be sorted by newest, and the latter can be sorted by creation, both ascending or descendi …
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Best way of structuring a library?
You could check out StackKit, which has objects all over the place and is currently being refactored to have even more. At a quick glance, we have:
SKSite - an object representing any site that exp …
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Do tags have "Id" field?
I doubt there would be, since tags are uniqued by their name-color combination.
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