Forum Post: RE: REST service for JSON payload - OE 11.3.1

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To add a bit of additional information: the {"request":...}, {"response":...}, and {"error":...} JSON payloads are proprietary formats implemented by OpenEdge to enable tunneling RPC like request parameters to an AppServer. They are the primary payload formats used by the OpenEdge Mobile JSDO support. However, a developer does not have to use those formats at all if you are creating your own custom REST service to service any type of http client. The OpenEdge REST adapter [service] allows you the option of not using the restrictive REST mapping found in Mobile services, and to manually map different types of ABL data types to a http body (plus a lot more) in a wider variety of AppServer procedures and classes. The choice is up to the developer, but the manual do-anything-for-anybody approach is much more work than what the Mobile JSDO requires for doing simple CRUD and invoke operations.

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