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Pro RESTful APIs: Design, Build and Integrate with REST, JSON, XML and JAX-RS
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Pro RESTful APIs: Design, Build and Integrate with REST, JSON, XML and JAX-RS

by Sanjay Patni
March 2017
Intermediate to advanced
126 pages
2h 53m
English
Apress
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© Sanjay Patni 2017

Sanjay Patni, Pro RESTful APIs, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2665-0_2

2. API Design and Modeling

Sanjay Patni1 

(1)UCSC Excention, Santa Clara, California, USA

This chapter starts with API design strategies and then goes into API creation process and modeling. Best practices for REST API design are discussed, followed by API solution architecture. In the excercises, a simple API is designed for podcasts suscription and then modeling using RAML.

API Design Strategies

As UI is to UX (User Experience), API is to APX (Application Programming Experience ). In APX it is important o answer following questions:

  • What should be exposed?

  • What is the best way to expose the data?

  • How should API be adjusted and improved?

In addition, let’s discuss why we ...

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