[SalesForce] ExactTarget REST vs SOAP API

I'm impressed with ExactTarget's REST API; it's well considered, particularly its oAuth implementation.

However, the services available in the REST API only provides a handful of core methods. The REST API is not as extensive as SOAP and doesn't include any of the methods we need, so we're stuck using SOAP, which is unfortunate as we're building an app in Node.js and would prefer to use RESTful requests.

Can someone clarify if there are plans to extend service and method support in the ExactTarget REST API to make it match the SOAP API?

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Yes - we are planning to extend all functionality of the REST services provided by the Fuel API, and bring it to parity with the SOAP API.

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[SalesForce] Exposing same apex method via SOAP and REST API

Looks like you can expose the same apex method both via SOAP and REST API..I tried the below code and executed via SOAPUI(for SOAP protocol) and workbench(REST protocol) and it worked fine and the bebug statement printed in logs.

@RestResource(urlmapping = '/someUrl/*')
global class SOAPRESTClass {

    @HttpGet
    webservice static void someMethod(){
        System.debug('From someMethod');
    }

}

[SalesForce] Salesforce Marketing Cloud REST vs SOAP API

For the majority of core system activities, SOAP is more fully fledged. REST is used for more recent functionality additions of the platform e.g. Journey Builder, Content Builder. For the use cases you list, then SOAP would be best.

An alternative to consider is to use the SDK - then you don't have to worry as to which one to use.

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