Tickets :: Comment on [#12740] Implement API for non-RPC friendly API calls.

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Comment	>> Anything returned from the API should be compatible with a RPC call >> as well. Requiring logic in the returned object to access the >> requested data will not work over e.g., json-rpc calls. > > Huh? How is this supposed to work? See mail/imapOb - that returns a > Horde_Imap_Client_Base object. That is most certainly NOT something > that can be returned via a JSON-RPC call. (or mail/flagList. Or > mail/createMailbox). > > And that is extremely concerning if you are saying that > inter-application API calls are restricted to simple data structures > . That is a crippling limitation for a feature that came AFTER > the original API design - which allowed PHP objects to be returned. > > If you disgaree, than there needs to be a separate RPC framework in > the future. Or at least a separate search call that is RPC specific. > > But you absolutely cannot be expected to know the structure of the > photo data object, so at a minimum this ticket cannot be closed. > This needs to be documented somewhere.
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