Salesforce API and Contract First Design
July 28, 2006
Sanjiva Weerawarana on the Salesforce API:
The real problem is that whoever designed the Salesforce API was not smart enough to do contract-first design. The entire API is highly object-oriented, leading me to think that someone took a nasty class hierarchy and auto generated XML Schema and WSDL out of it. That’s ABSOLUTELY the wrong way to do it.
I believe the Salesforce API was designed when doing code-first was considered to be the way to go. I obviously don’t really know, but I wonder whether Sanjiva would have expressed the same opinion two years ago.
It’s good to see a reasonable practice like contract-first become more and more accepted over time.
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