[pwinnski]

I hadn't considered the one-way nature of dumping Java classes to JSON.

Mainly because I work with classes that are serialized both to and from JSON, rather than having Jackson annotations added much later.

I can see it now. Horrifying! I'm sorry for your troubles.

[mumblemumble]

My take-away is this: Protocols should always be defined independently of any existing code.

The code-first approach only works well when you're doing something self-contained. Which, an API, almost by definition, is not.

[pwinnski]

I generally try to design APIs from a consumer perspective, and then usually I end up with something RESTful. Let the server do whatever it has to do, you know?