Jeremy Ross created CAMEL-16388:
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Summary: camel-salesforce: drop support for XML as a serialization
format
Key: CAMEL-16388
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-16388
Project: Camel
Issue Type: Wish
Components: camel-salesforce
Affects Versions: 3.8.0
Reporter: Jeremy Ross
Fix For: 3.10.0
Putting this out here for a discussion.
The salesforce REST APIs support XML and JSON. However, it's clear from the
official documentation and examples that JSON is the first-class citizen. All
the examples are in JSON and there's only this one, sad reference to XML
serialization:
{quote}XML serialization is similar to SOAP API. XML requests are supported in
UTF-8 and UTF-16, and XML responses are provided in UTF-8.{quote}
This leaves us Camel maintainers with the not-fun activity of guessing how
salesforce expects its myriad types to be serialized to XML.
I suspect that Camel users don't really care that much which serialization
format is used. Both have equal parity with salesforce, and as a Camel user I
just care that Camel serializes and deserializes my DTOs correctly. Wire format
is an abstraction that shouldn't matter. This is the crux of my argument.
Camel's support for both formats is a maintenance burden, and a barrier to
developing future features and support for newer APIs. Serialization format
isn't a concern to users, and the burden of supporting both formats is of no
real value. Therefore, I'd like to consider dropping XML support, leaving JSON
as the supported format.
Note that this does not affect the `rawPayload` option. Users would still be
welcome to provide their own raw payloads in either format.
Paging for comment: [~zregvart] [~davsclaus] [~jbonofre]
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