decouple your mobile api now
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Decouple yourmobile API now
…don’t be sorry later !
Sept 2013Romain Prieto
BREAKING CHANGE
defensive / fallbacks
continuous checks
consumer-driver contracts
Display list of products
sorted by MagicRank ©
unless on sale
only best rated
Where does that logic sit?
Even if it’s UI related…
will you want to tweak it remotely?
Custom tailored
services
Many
capabilities
GET
/products
{ id: 1, name:
“chair” },
{ id: 2, name:
“table” }
GET
/products/1
{ price: 30, image:
“…” }
POST
/cart/items{ productId: 1,
quantity: 4 }
URI changes? …refactoring
Host changes? …micro-services
…infrastructure
upgrades
GET
/products
[{
id: 1,
name: “chair”,
details:
“/products/1”
}]
DATA
GET /config
{ cart:
“/cart/items” }
GET
/products/1{ cart: “/cart/items/1“, … }
SERVICES
or
SINGLE
PROXY
DISCOVERABLE
SERVICES
http://mark-kirby.co.uk/2013/creating-a-true-rest-api/
http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven
http://madhatted.com/2013/3/19/suggested-rest-api-practices
http://offers.apigee.com/web-api-design-ebook/
http://kinderman.net/2010/06/23/approaching-pure-rest-learning-to-love-hateoas
http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html
https://kenai.com/projects/suncloudapis/pages/CloudAPIBackupRequests
a few more URLs
{ "op": "restore-Backup", "progress": 0, "target_uri": "/vms/33333/backups/456", "status_uri": "/statuses?op=restore-Backup&vm=3&b=456"}
SunCloud API (2009)
<link href="http://api-public.netflix.com/catalog/titles/series/70023522/cast" rel="http://schemas.netflix.com/catalog/people" title="cast">
<cast>
<link href="http://api-public.netflix.com/catalog/people/30011713" rel="http://schemas.netflix.com/catalog/person" title="Steve Carell” />
<link href="http://api-public.netflix.com/catalog/people/30014922" rel="http://schemas.netflix.com/catalog/person" title="John Krasinski” />
Netflix
