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Out of GraphQL and REST, I'd say REST is much closer to SOAP than GraphQL is. SOAP is essentially the same as REST -- you have request/response for every resou
by trumpeta 7y ago
Out of GraphQL and REST, I'd say REST is much closer to SOAP than GraphQL is.
SOAP is essentially the same as REST -- you have request/response for every resource. Its just more verbose and inscrutable thanks to XML and all the schemas.
GraphQL on the other hand enables new interactions that were not possible or practical with either of the two.
- smacktoward 7y agoNah, SOAP is fundamentally different from REST in that it’s all organized around procedure calls. A SOAP API tends to be structured as a big bag of functions, whereas a REST API puts resources front and center. REST thinks in nouns, SOAP thinks in verbs.