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Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices
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Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

by Harihara Subramanian J, Anupama Murali, Pethuru Raj
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
11h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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API security design patterns

API security is essential. If there's any manipulation allowed on APIs, the results may be catastrophic. Here's an article that enumerates all the things an API developer has to minutely make in order to arrive at impenetrable and unbreakable APIs: https://dzone.com/articles/top-5-rest-api-security-guidelines. First, the identification and authentication are being performed in order to empower users to access RESTful APIs. Next in line is none other than authorization. The RESTful API design has to be done in such a way that it's possible to establish and enforce authorization rights. Also, bringing the correct changes into authorization policies/rules also has to be part of the API design. The rights-based access ...

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