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    <p>This is a hard question to answer, primarily because in the current state of the industry, the right answer is very impractical. </p> <p>The correct answer, in my opinion, is you should not use a wrapper API. The uniform interface is HTTP and that should be the programming model the client works against. </p> <p>Having said that, there is nothing wrong with having helper classes that parse media types to generate strongly typed versions. Something like this,</p> <pre><code>var response = HttpClient.Get(linkTofoo); if (response.ContentType =='application/foo') { var strongFoo = FooHelper.Parse(fooResponse); HandleFoo(strongFoo); } </code></pre> <p>Unfortunately, a vast majority of apis that claim to be RESTful, are not. They do not respect the self-description and hypermedia constraints and therefore they make it very difficult to interact with them in a RESTful way. They require you to do client side URI construction and have prior knowledge of the types that will be returned from endpoints.</p> <p>The sad fact is that with many APIs you have little choice but to use a provided client proxy library. This should not be the case.</p> <p>If you are looking for evaluating a client library, just make sure it is a stateless one. The client library should not start managing the lifetimes of the returned objects. Http caching does that, so unless it is an uber-smart library that can invalidate object references when the cached representation expires, avoid any stateful client libraries.</p> <pre><code>e.g. var foo = remotelibrary.GetFoo(233); var bar = foo.bar; // If this causes an HTTP request var barcopy2 = foo.bar // and this doesn't because it already has a reference to bar // I would be very leary of using this library </code></pre>
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    1. COI'd say it's ok to write/use libraries written for specific hypertext applications e.g. AtomPub
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    2. CO@Mike yes, if the library is written for a specific protocol that is layered on top of HTTP then chances are it uses HTTP properly under the covers, so you should be safe.
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