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Designing RESTful APIs

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Discover how to plan and model your own APIs, and explore the six REST design constraints that help guide your architecture.

Syllabus

Introduction

Design a RESTful API for your organization
Before you build an API

1. Who Needs Your API?

Why good API design is important
Approaches to adding an API
Tips for modeling APIs
Identifying participants
Identifying activities and breaking them into steps
Case study: Identifying participants and activities

2. What Does Your API Look Like?

Creating and grouping API methods
Mapping activities to verbs and actions
Validating your API

3. How Does Your API Work?

REST and HTML
HTTP header and response codes
REST APIs: Constraints
REST APIs: Code on demand and uniform interfaces

4. Common Design Challenges

Authentication and authorization
API versioning best practices
Choosing media types and processing content
Hypermedia approaches
Advanced HTTP headers: Content negotiation and caching
Documentation approaches
SDK design considerations

Conclusion

Next steps toward designing a RESTful API

Taught by

Keith Casey

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