F# Type Providers and REST apis

Question

Is there any reason why the default plug and play F# type providers to web services is soap based wsdl? Is it because of a lack of formal contracts in REST? Such that each REST api may differ significantly and hence making a general REST provider difficult to provide?

Answer 1

Type providers need machine-readable type schema to do their jobs well.

Answer 2

Type providers need schema. So you could use Open Data Protocol that is REST + schema. For that task you could use ODataTypeProvider that is already implemented.