You Give REST a Bad Name

A parody of 'You Give Love a Bad Name' - about hypermedia APIs. No, really.

[@veneoth]

"you say it works in a restful way, then your errors come back as 200 OK" = GOLD

[@joshbrown4144]

You mean "==", right?

[@comensky]

@@joshbrown4144 or alternatively { gold = '200 OK'; )

[@kasrus]

Been there, consumed that...

[@progdrummer-nenad]

true story

[@eddygtube]

@@joshbrown4144 You mean "===" right?

[@mcamporelli]

I can never listen to Bon Jovi the same way again... :-D That "you promised me JSON, then sent XML" line is epic!

[@FadingAway90]

anyone who has worked with a 3rd party API can relate

[@TerjeMathisen]

Been there, had to handle that in a B2B API stack. The vendor promised to always send us JSON but every once in a while they would reset that flag, send us the default XML and nothing would work until we had explained to them once more that we really meant it. :-(

[@davidmiller3560]

@@TerjeMathisen feel you. The reason I handle REST manually. My coworkers use generated classes for their APIs but it would literaly explode with this special API. The third party just don't care for any convention..

[@FluffyShadowSky]

I sent this to a software engineer having a hard day with network development, he laughed for the first time in a month and a half

[@karmicxkoala]

"You promised me json then sent xml" Story of my whole career

[@DoubleM55]

Your data won't even deserialize! :) I remember one guy who built JSON response by concating string like "{\"username\":" + str(user) + "... Of course, you can guess what happens when some variable contains quotation mark etc. It was truly hilarious.

[@rodahanz6910]

I can't help but to wonder if there was a service in mind when this parody was created. I know I can think of a couple of vendor's services that deserve a dedication of this song

[@adamzaczek6342]

It's the SharePoint API. It's got to be.

[@Tsole]

9 people still work with SOAP APIs

[@mils3318]

hahahahhah

[@theslobotfather]

this comment does not update, please update it to v26

[@poorez_11]

i hate soap

[@ukazap]

Now v42

[@TeDynef]

soap has it purposes. Thrust me. Used well its good but its no replace for REST APIs.

[@Chantler56]

Please keep these coming, they're gold and my team loves them!

I just can't understand how anyone could dislike this video

Wrong API call

[@BertF1966]

As the only coder in my family I can categorically say that they would ALL hate it unconditionally 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@borjabravo9426]

They felt it as a personal attack :)

[@tomasstana5423]

These are the accidental viewers who are not programmers and do not get it.

[@seancharles1595]

When I resign from my current (wonderful) job I am going to email a link to this to a certain service provider we use (not wonderful). It's as though you wrote if just for them. Love it.

[@georglausegger2903]

Such great :D Listening to the song in an endless loop while integrating whatever that should be - yes exactly....

[@electron0zero]

Now I have to wrap it in GraphQL

[@sergeyivanov3607]

Golden.

[@Pubah8]

7 people know their APIs are in the hall of shame

[@badyrovjr.4426]

Deserves much more views than it has right now

[@sunbang9000]

I can not wait your next song: It's my api.

[@ShinEduKen]

Wanted 400 or 200

[@markgarv3238]

AngusYoung84 its 404 but whatevs

I just wanna serve when I'm alive!

[@coder8515]

Haha! I'm wordless how much I enjoyed this... Thank you, Dylan.

[@meerabellenbaum6092]

This song made my day! Reminds me of too many projects..

[@jnicoulakos]

I first saw this when I had to do API testing in SQL to to verify if the issue was a front end UI issue or the Stored Procedures issue. lol This was funny!

[@KHeavy]

Saw this at NDC London last night and couldn't stop laughing! Amazing job mate.

[@mattr2238]

"Why do all of your C programs have a bunch of assembly language dependancies?" "Because compilers are all slow" "And your handwritten assembly is faster?" "Much faster. I wanted to use Fortran, but management wouldn't let me." "You do know that modern Fortran compilers are written in C, right?" Pulls out punch card...

[@IoannisCherouvim]

This is gold.

[@alexey4562]

Hello from CodeFest 2018. it was a nice live show at bar. Thank you for cool songs!

[@zS39SBT4fe5Zp8Q]

This hits the feels way more than the original. 🤘🤘🤘

[@lightfoxZZ]

This is abolutely awesome and really made me laught, thank you so much for this, the lyrics are pure gold xD

[@motsuaboshi8976]

I've listened to several web development songs in the last few minutes, this one is excellent ^^

[@ustpcz9739]

I might need to steal this for my next code review.

[@trevorpeterson1004]

This is the greatest thing I have ever seen.

[@martinshaw6353]

Some band played the Bon Jovi version in the pub I was in last night and all I could hear in my head was this version 😂

[@Tecnocrazia]

Still listening in 2023

[@verry_codes]

I truly love this song so much 😂

[@verryondrums]

Oh my god this is soooo good xD! Let me know if you need a drummer someday... 😄

[@Meaxis]

I'm rebuilding my API. This serves as a guide of "What not to do."

[@benutza5362]

Same

[@folgadev]

I logged on KZbin just to like and subscribe to this Gold channel.

[@jannikmeissner]

I just now realised that there even was an original… I didn't realise this was based on a Bon Jovi song…

[@owenhebert830]

Thanks for putting this out there. Great work!

[@Drokkstar_]

This made me 'api.

[@ukakkad2010]

This is too good Bon Jovi should listen to this

[@joaoarguimaraes]

I'll just drop this song on a chat group that we have with a third part integration...

[@BikeGremlinRS]

How come the dark waters of KZbin's auto-play hadn't brought me sooner to this bug-free channel! :) ...Hello help-desk my old friend, I've come to talk with you again...

[@ВиталийПугач-к8ю]

Это шедеврально!

This is pure gold

[@dndhndn]

Those who dislike this video are the backend programmers who returns errors with 200 OK and writes only POST method to all endpoints.

[@Dimich1993]

This is better than I'd expected.😂

[@AhmedToulan]

I wish I can like it a 1000 times :D

[@DanielMalkafly]

i think i gonna cry

[@mathcitadel2663]

Fantastic job and production.

[@adrunkenloner]

I dont know nothing about programing but it sounds kinda cool

[@benwang2118]

I feel like this is how MediaWiki API works

[@maenolis]

This is way too good!

[@ChronologicalLogic]

this is so niche and I love it

[@447GHT]

I’m looking at YOU, boardGameGeek API

[@yeeesssssss]

let's make this the anthem for rest apis

[@maksimepikhin]

😂😂😂 гениально) спасибо за хорошее настроение

[@michaelulloa12]

What a gem

[@trudyandgeorge]

This video is so cathartic I'm dealing with an API that does all the wrong things (AlphaESS battery control). Despite its nonsensical behaviour, the payloads at least deserialise. We have come a long way on that front probably thanks to all the libre/open libraries. Just imagine having to deal with the payloads of some underpaid, rushed dev rolling their own json parser! 😀🔫

[@ObjectiSkeptic]

This is awesome! It's what devs like me have to put up with.

[@estudotsi]

Greetings from Brazil, very, very, real very funny, lol

[@UTCUTR]

You made my day. God bless you.

[@andre_601]

I have to admit, that I made some of the mistakes mentioned in this song...

[@gil0mendes]

This is possible the best frond of today. 😂😂 Nice work... 👏👏

[@mralexoficiall]

The FIS API is exactly like this!

[@LiEnby]

PlayStation Store 'Buy now" returns "200 OK" even if it errors

[@SyntaxSeed]

Wins the internet.

[@AndersonLima-xu1iv]

interesting that in the original audio by Bon Jovi.. there is the word "sublime"

[@marodga]

I want to be in your team 😂, fucking genius

[@ArcheryLuna]

Imagine if this works on rockstar

[@MarcelSHenselin]

Man, this is worth a follow :-D 😀

[@jorgecuevas8430]

Duuude, why is this not on Spotify?

[@DylanBeattie]

Can't get on Spotify without a record deal or a distributor/aggregator agreement - there's no way for individuals to share their own music directly. I'm working on it but don't hold your breath :)

[@Meaxis]

@@DylanBeattie I did share it individually (without any producer), check RouteNote, made the worse music ever yet got it on Spotify so yours will pass easily. Can't wait to add them to my playlist!

[@zero-lpds]

Hey mate, this song is fantastic! Could I contact you somewhere directly please? I would like your written permission to use part of this song in my podcast. Also, if you would be interested, it would be fab to have you as a guest on our show? Cheers

[@svendsen1111]

This fucking made my day!

[@simondavidvgm]

This song is 200 OK 👌

[@_samirdahal]

Update: 88 people still send Errors as 200 OK

[@mrbuerger]

I know a business who developed a api only using GET method for every CRUD action.

[@HestonSinurayaJogja]

even to these days, there are so many developer sent response code 200 for error lol

[@Michael80B]

So nerdy! Love it

[@huggy406]

how do i like a video more than once?

[@humm535]

You create multiple accounts and like with each one.

[@brunosalomao89]

In my machine works... then we will deliver your machine Then born Docker rsrs

[@markoshivapavlovic4976]

Broken methods missing docs update fails on every failing POST request. -- could be updated to something like this in case of some APi's that exist today.

[@Ярослав-х2ф8д]

Pure awesomeness

[@GroupNebula563]

We have to deal with a program that is absolutely ABYSMAL. There’s a client that then talks to a server which acts as a compatibility layer because the client is very old and higher IT refuses to replace it and then that layer talks to the server. The only problem is the compatibility layer is SUPER finicky with HTTP response codes, and it has to have a 0 before the code or it interprets it as a 500. It’s a nightmare, because it then logs the code it interprets and not the one it receives. So HTTP 200 is logged as HTTP 500, but HTTP 0200 is logged as the correct code (HTTP 200). We had to implement a custom web server that gives 4 digit response codes because of this. If it tries to talk to something outside of our servers, getting it to work is an absolute nightmare.

[@GroupNebula563]

Oh, and in case you’re wondering what web server uses 4 digit response codes, none do. It was a bug in the layer and by the time we figured out what was happening the guy that made it had quit

[@alexmohr2308]

this reminds me of the wunderground API =)

[@HasmatuchiAlexandru]

43 people do delete with a post call

[@juha-mattisainio7582]

That is so true, unfortunately...

[@jayextarys8616]

Best song every!

[@ryanoc333]

So good and relatable!

[@BenediktusAnindito]

i wish i can add GIF comment but i can't.. this is hillarious wkwk

[@yehoshuas.6917]

I'm sorry front-end devs...oh god I've done so much of this trash

[@FilipMarzec_]

this is GOLD

[@SergeiKjtydghk]

Это шедевр!

[@ilyasissatayev7003]

i liked it👍

[@riddlesofthepast]

entertaining AND educational!

[@felipe-ribeiro]

😂😂😂 The best !!!

[@Speedsoftware]

This song could be about jenkins API...

[@QuietNoiz]

Loved it! #RESTDeveloper.😜

[@aj.arunkumar]

hey if you loved this check out 'i love angular js' by ben awad. that one is hip hop lol

[@michalgdynia1]

:) awesome remix!

[@anastasiosmelissopoulos4660]

Ο εντερπενερ με εφερε εδώ

[@ffKingcreole]

can i get this as an Album somewhere to support the Artist? :)

[@rafaelbraga3d]

AMAZING! LOL

[@frankhaugen]

Could have been a Weird Al -song :-D