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One issue is that many services deprecate API endpoints over time. For example - https://github.com/blog/1160-github-api-v2-end-of-life https://github.com/blog/
by prateekdayal 14y ago
One issue is that many services deprecate API endpoints over time. For example - https://github.com/blog/1160-github-api-v2-end-of-life https://github.com/blog/1160-github-api-v2-end-of-life
- mercurial 14y agoLike I was saying, it depends on how much backward-compatible your vendor wants to be. I just don't see how a hosted app is going to protect you from this kind of thing. The only difference is that the hosted app is presented with a "native" API as opposed to an RPC API, but it's just as vulnerable to deprecation, and will remain so as long as you are a third-party. Except that the cost in term of infrastructure and ongoing maintenance (code review, etc) is higher, which IMHO makes it likely to be phased out sooner than a web API.