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

["Jawad Ahmad (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jawad Ahmad edited comment on CAMEL-16388 at 3/25/21, 4:14 PM:
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We have been working on Salesforce integration with SAP. As SAP is the old system we had to use XML formats, which is why most of the integration is written in XML format. 

Going to watch this ticket to see what you guys finalize (y)


was (Author: jawwad124):
We have been working on Salesforce integration with SAP. As SAP is the old system we had to use XML formats, which is why most of the integration is written in XML format. 

Going to watch to see what you guys finalize (y)

> 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: Future
>
>
> 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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