It requires getting the architecture for your apis right. This approach has some advantages in a sense that its still a pure c api, which makes it easier to use with various c only ffis. You are ready to enter the api design world and this book will help you explore it. Telling stories a short path to writing better software requirements. A lot of books have been written on the subject for beginners and to be honest all of those books cover about the same number of topics and similar explanation. Undisturbed rest tackles these challenges head on, focusing on what you need to know in order to design the perfect api. Martin reddy with this book, you will learn how to design a good api for largescale longterm projects. Understand how components such as the developer portal and api gateway support the api lifecycle. Without wanting to sound like im pushing the book, it does cover exactly the topic that youre asking about.
This book covers the entire process of designing and scaling a microservice from the ground up. Restful api designing guidelines the best practices. The little manual of api design max planck society. We all have a different approach to learning and understanding things so calling a boo. Handson restful api design patterns and best practices. With templates in my api i often end up with library code in my executable or other library so if i fix a bug in there i cant simply roll out the new library but have to recompile and. An application programming interface api provides a logical interface to a piece of software and hides its internal details. This book equips you with both foundations and best practices for api architecture. Building apis that consumers love should certainly be the goal of any api initiative.
While alexandrescu didnt invent the technique, he has popularized it. Building an api is easy, but designing an api that meets business objectives, pleases your users, and is longlived now thats hard. This approach has some advantages in a sense that its still a pure c api, which makes it easier to use with various conly ffis. In depth code examples illustrate every idea, with absolutely useful examples and working supply code for experimentation obtainable online. Associate volume purchases with users or devices using endpoints for mobile device management mdm, provided by the volume purchase program vpp. On windows, you can install the miktex project although you wont be able to run build. It goes far beyond api design to include coding patterns, unit testing, and continuous integration.
It focuses on various api styles and patterns that will allow you to produce elegant and durable libraries. So what i am looking for is a book that details how to design applications. In this book, well start by discussing the what an api is, why you might need one, and follow up with the how to build one. Martin reddy draws on over fifteen years of experience in the software industry to offer indepth discussions of interface design, documentation, testing, and the advanced topics of scripting and plugin extensibility. App and book management apple developer documentation. Lets model an api around a simple object or resource, a dog, and create a web api for it. Read these books and deep dives for the most comprehensive development knowhow on rest apis. In its quest for completeness, chapters on performance considerations, versioning and documenting your api and how to completely test its implementation follow. Extensive code examples illustrate each concept, with fully functional examples and working source code. Web api design crafting interfaces that developers love 5 a key litmus test we use for web api design is that there should be only 2 base urls per resource. Regardless, were always open to additional sections, concepts, and questions so dont hesitate to drop us a note. Along with best practices and modern design techniques, youll be guided through an understanding of the rest architectural style, hypermedia, and how to build an api that is both extendable and flexible. Covers various api styles and patterns with a focus on practical. The key words must, must not, required, shall, shall not, should, should not, recommended, may, and optional in this document are to.
Api design guidelines publicly available api design guidelines are analyzed to list covered topics and their references within each one. The book will help you dig deeper into the distinct contributions of restful services for iot analytics and applications. Chapter 2 qualities publisher summary this chapter describes the basic qualities of a good api. Extensive code examples illustrate each concept, with fully functional examples and working source code for experimentation available online. This design guide is shared here to inform outside developers and to make it easier for us all to work together. Examples in this book help you build apis that are fast and scalable. Contribute to livemirrorapibook development by creating an account on github. Some companies and government agencies share their api design guidelines with the community. Restful, rest, api design, api, api description languages, raml, openapi. With this book, you will learn how to design a good api for largescale longterm projects.
The focus is, however, on rest and the api frontend design decisions. Generic programming and design patterns applied is a book written by andrei alexandrescu, published in 2001 by addisonwesley. However, this book does not attempt to teach api design in five easy lessons. Download the files as a zip using the green button, or clone the repository to your machine using git. The book provides a concise and excellent set of references and a. If you have ever written code and handed it to someone else to let them compile their code against yours, the answer is. Martin reddy draws on over fifteen years of experience in the software industry to offer indepth discussions of interface. You can view the table of contents of the book to give you a good overview of the issues you should be considering. The key words must, must not, required, shall, shall not, should, should not, recommended, may. A consistent api is easy to memorize because you can reapply what you learned in one part of the api when using a different part. With addition of our appendix on api design patterns and numerous other design tips, this book is complete. The apiuniversity series is a modular series of books on apirelated topics. Accidentally breaking backward compatibility is probably the biggest nightmare of any sdk developer, and this book extensively covers what you need to do to avoid it.
A short yet on point book on holistic api best practices, written by james higginbotham and keith casey jones. Besides detailing the api design and development aspects, this book will assist you in designing and developing productionready, testable, sustainable, and enterprisegrade apis. Google books is our effort to make book content more discoverable on the web. However it will help you understand api development in the context of modern microservices. Once you have latex run the following command from within the book directorybuild. Each book focuses on a particular api topic, so you can select the topics within apis, which are relevant to you. An api is not only the names of the classes and methods that compose it, but also their intended semantics. Youll progress from the basics of the framework through to solving the complex problems encountered in implementing secure restful services. Each document has been analyzed to list covered topics and their references within the document. Along with best practices and modern design techniques, youll be guided through an understanding of the rest architectural style. With this book, you will learn how to design a good api. There are many resources on writing nice apis, nice classes, templates and so on at source level, but barely anything about putting things together in shared libs and executables. We will examine some design choices made by major players in the game engine space to.