Readings: APIs

API Design Best Practices

• What does REST stand for?

Representational State Transfer (REST) -> an architectural approach to designing web services.

• REST APIs are designed around resources

• What is an identifer of a resource? Give an example.
  A URI that uniquely identifies that resource. For example, the URI for a particular customer order might be: https://adventure-works.com/orders/1

• What are the most common HTTP verbs?
  GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE.

• What should the URIs be based on?
  Resource URIs should be based on nouns (the resource) and not verbs (the operations on the resource).

• Give an example of a good URI.
  https://adventure-works.com/orders // Good

• What does it mean to have a chatty web API? Is this a good or a bad thing?
  “Chatty” web APIs -> expose a large number of small resources. bad thing.

• What status code does a successful GET request return?
  Returns HTTP status code 200 (OK).

• What status code does an unsuccessful GET request return?
  If the resource cannot be found, the method should return 404 (Not Found).

• What status code does a successful POST request return?
  If a POST method creates a new resource, it returns HTTP status code 201 (Created).

• What status code does a successful DELETE request return?
  HTTP 200 or HTTP 204 should imply “resource deleted successfully”. -204 as the article- <!– — Bookmark/Skim https://regexr.com/

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