[jira] [Commented] (CAMEL-16388) camel-salesforce: drop support for XML as a serialization format

["Claus Ibsen (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Claus Ibsen commented on CAMEL-16388:
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[~jeremyross] are you able to work on this?

> camel-salesforce: drop support for XML as a serialization format
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>
>                 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
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 3.12.0
>
>
> 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 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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