6 Resource identification
This chapter covers
- What an identifier is
- Attributes of good identifiers
- What good identifiers actually look like
- How to implement a system for making identifiers
- How this guidance works with UUIDs
In this chapter, we’ll explore resource identifiers in-depth. This includes what they are, what makes for a good one (and a bad one), as well as how they can be used in your APIs. We’ll also dig in to some of the common identifier formats in use today (such as universally unique identifiers or UUIDs; https://tools.ietf.org/html/ rfc4122), as well as new custom formats targeted specifically for use in web APIs.
6.1 What is an identifier?
First, what exactly do we mean when we talk about resource identifiers? In short, identifiers ...
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