API wrapper best practices?

Mike Whitaker mike at altrion.org
Sat Mar 23 16:05:11 GMT 2013


You mean apart from doing all the things you just said you're not going to do?

On 23 Mar 2013, at 16:01, Dave Hodgkinson <daveh at hodgkinson.org> wrote:

> 
> So I'm writing an interface to an API. It's a simple info request one.
> What top tips do we have for writing one that doesn't suck? I'd 
> just go for a new that takes the auth info, methods to go fetch
> the information and being lazy, just let the data be accessible
> through the selfish hash.
> 
> I'm not going to create objects for all the data objects at this point
> nor accessors for the individual fields. Well, maybe a few key ones.
> 
> Suggestions for anything better, lazier, more modern?
> 



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