MuleSoft, 2015. — 196 p.Building an API is easy, but designing an API that meets business objectives, pleases your users, and is long-lived – now that’s hard. Undisturbed REST tackles these challenges head on, focusing on what you need to know in order to design the perfect API. Along with best practices and modern design techniques, you’ll be guided through an understanding of the REST architectural style, hypermedia, and how to build an API that is both extendable and flexible.
Topics included:
- What is an API.
- Planning Your API.
- Designing the Spec.
- Using RAML.
- Prototyping and Agile Testing.
- Authorization and Authentication.
- Designing Your Resources.
- Designing Your Methods.
- Handling Responses.
- Adding Hypermedia.
- Managing with a Proxy.
- Documenting and Sharing Your API.
