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RESTful API Design
Brian starts off with a poor unstructured Web API and evolves this toward a better design. He suggests that you should avoid verbs in your URLs and that you only need 2 base URLs per collection: one to access the collection and one to access a specific element. He follows the advice in the Wikipedia article on RESTful design that POST queries are used for creation, GET for reading, PUT for updating, and DELETE to remove. He also covers topics such as good ways to support pagination of results, specifying the response format, and versioning of your web service. This is a great overview of good Web API design, and it’s only 16 minutes long. Check it out: |
Brian Mulloy recently gave a presentation about Web API design at Saleforce’s Cloudstock event in San Francisco. He has provided a video of his talk that is well worth checking out if you’re interested in RESTful API development for web services.ABOUT THIS SITE
An Application Programming Interface (API) provides a logical interface to a piece of software and hides its internal details. This website is dedicated to a book on designing APIs for C++ and includes articles and links on API development.SOURCE CODE
The book is accompanied by a source code package that contains many of
the examples in the text.
Download it for free.
OTHER BOOKS
Dr. Reddy has also published a computer graphics book called Level of
Detail for 3D Graphics.
Check it out too!.
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