Chapter 12: Getting Some REST

It is a massively huge world out there! You are going to want your application to connect to it. In the modern era, almost every application connects to or integrates with some other database or application in some manner. There are many methods for exchanging data through some form of web service; SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), REST (Representational State Transfer), and GraphQL are just three common ways. In this chapter, we will discuss one form of integration: the REST API. Specifically, we will discuss third-party REST APIs, what a third-party API is, how to interact with it, and understand the crucial artifacts in Studio Pro that will get you up and connected in no time. We will briefly take a look ...

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