About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherO'reilly Media, Incorporated

ISBN-101449358063

ISBN-139781449358068

eBay Product ID (ePID)160101257

Product Key Features

Number of Pages404 Pages

Publication NameRestful Web APIs : Services for a Changing World

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2013

SubjectWeb / Web Services & APIs, Web / Web Programming, General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaComputers

AuthorSam Ruby, Leonard Richardson, Mike Amundsen

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight23 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal005.12

SynopsisRESTful Web Apis shows readers how to get APIs as close as possible to optimum usability, focusing on solutions to common problems that cross a variety of domains., RESTful APIs make programming easy for users, but it can be tricky to map traditional APIs to REST expectations. While REST simplifies user expectations, getting the flow and granularity of data right remains a challenge. REST's popularity has led to tremendous growth in "almost REST" APIs, and grown demand for projects that evolve toward the hypermedia possibilities REST opens for data on the Web. This book shows readers how to get APIs as close as possible to optimum usability, focusing on solutions to common problems that cross a variety of domains. By combining the tools and expectations that the Web has already provided with complex data structures, developers will be able to create secure and powerful applications their customers will be happy to use., The popularity of REST in recent years has led to tremendous growth in almost-RESTful APIs that don't include many of the architecture's benefits. With this practical guide, you'll learn what it takes to design usable REST APIs that evolve over time. By focusing on solutions that cross a variety of domains, this book shows you how to create powerful and secure applications, using the tools designed for the world's most successful distributed computing system: the World Wide Web. You'll explore the concepts behind REST, learn different strategies for creating hypermedia-based APIs, and then put everything together with a step-by-step guide to designing a RESTful Web API. Examine API design strategies, including the collection pattern and pure hypermedia Understand how hypermedia ties representations together into a coherent API Discover how XMDP and ALPS profile formats can help you meet the Web API "semantic challenge" Learn close to two-dozen standardized hypermedia data formats Apply best practices for using HTTP in API implementations Create Web APIs with the JSON-LD standard and other the Linked Data approaches Understand the CoAP protocol for using REST in embedded systems

LC Classification NumberQA76.76.A63