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Thanks! I though I was the only one.. The RESTful API is designed to be really simple for clients. If you designed yours well, your users won't need your client API.

For instance, on iOS we have the wonderful RestKit Client[0]. If you create your own client it means I would have to write specific cases for your API and miss all RestKit features. Don't get me wrong, I could still use the RestKit with your API, but when I see an API client available, I always think "this API may be bad designed, it needs specific code".

[0](https://github.com/RestKit/RestKit)

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