In practice, many published web APIs fall somewhere around level 2. Organize the API design around resources Focus on the business entities that the web API exposes. For example, in an e-commerce system, the primary entities might be customers and orders. Creating an order can be achieved by...
In practice, many published web APIs fall somewhere around level 2. Organize the API design around resources Focus on the business entities that the web API exposes. For example, in an e-commerce system, the primary entities might be customers and orders. Creating an order can be achieved by...
Although not stated, usingversion controlwith your API is a best practice. Your API specification should include the version number that the spec applies to. The version maybe1.4.2in the spec, but we only want the major version in the URL. It’s only necessary to include the major version...
The practice of API design is a tricky one. Even when there are so many options out there—tools to use, standards to apply, styles to follow—there is one basic question that needs to be answered and needs to be clear in the developer's mind before any kind design and development can...
To prevent abuse, it is standard practice to add some sort of rate limiting to an API.RFC 6585introduced a HTTP status code429 Too Many Requeststo accommodate this. However, it can be very useful to notify the consumer of their limits before they actually hit it. This is an area that ...
Likewise, I do not pretend to have mastered REST API design! It is acraft— the more you practice, the better you get. I will expose some code snippets as "examples of bad design". If they look like something you'd write, it's okay! The only thing that matters is that we learn ...
An API is never going to be completely stable. Change is inevitable. What's important is how that change is managed. Well documented and announced multi-month deprecation schedules can be an acceptable practice for many APIs. It comes down to what is reasonable given the industry and possible...
Create roles according to the security best practice of least privilege, providing access to the minimum amount of business data required for the task. Assign users the appropriate role for their job. Create a new role with those specific privileges and add the user to the new role if a u...
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Designing HTTP and RESTful APIs can be tricky as there is no official and enforced standard. Basically, there are many ways of implementing an API but some of them have proven in practice and are widley adopted. This post covers best practices for building HTTP and RESTful APIs. We’ll talk...