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REST API Design,


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Summary of a course that covers the A to Z of


RESTful API. More information.

RESTful API 101


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Application Programming Interface
A user interface to data and systems that is consumed by applications rather than humans

A well defined contract between provider and consumer

Contract = Structure of Request & Response XML


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Why Developers started to prefer JSON over XML?

XML is heavy in terms of network traffic

Parsing of XML is CPU & Memory intensive

Slow performance of XML on browser front end not desired

Mobile devices battery performance reduced due to XML

Standards & versions of standards caused confusion and complexity


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Java Script Object Notation
http://json.org launched in 2002

Google & Yahoo offered JSON/RPC in 2006

Representational State Transfer


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History
Roy Fielding dissertation paper Year 2000

Described the REST Architectural Principles

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API provides programmatic access to data & systems

2016
API have become mainstream

2006

2004

2002

2000 SOAP/XML Standards gain traction Roy Fielding dissertation paper - REST
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Summary
1. XML-RPC & SOAP are API standards that use XML

2. With the rise of mobile & single page apps REST/JSON have
gained popularity

3. Irrespective of the industry, companies are leveraging API

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Representational State
What makes an API RESTful?

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RESTful API. More information.
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Representational State
Representational State

Representational State

Representational State

Query
With VIN#

presentational Car owner


tracking

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Data formats
Representational State

Row from Database


Web, Mobile,
Partner apps
Logic
& Single Page
Apps
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RESTful

Architectural Style Technology

Set of Principles Standards

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Summary
1. Resources are objects, things, entities such as car, bank a/c

2. Resources have representational state managed in backend

3. REST is NOT a standard but an architectural style

4. REST may use HTTP application protocol

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