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API Design Patterns
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API Design Patterns

by John J. Geewax
July 2021
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
14h 40m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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23 Importing and exporting

This chapter covers

  • Specific definitions for import and export
  • Interacting directly with remote storage systems
  • Converting serialized bytes into API resources
  • Handling consistency for exporting volatile data sets
  • How unique identifiers should be processed when importing and exporting
  • What to do about related resources being imported or exported
  • Handling failures during import or export operations
  • How import and export differ from backup and restore
  • Filtering data on input and output data

In this pattern, we’ll explore how to safely and flexibly move resources in and out of an API via custom import and export methods. More importantly, this pattern relies on the API communicating directly with the external storage ...

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