An application programming interface (API) is the specification for which software is meant to be used by other software.
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API Wordpress & Inksoft
I am new to this whole website design and API bit. My husband has bought a license for the program InkSoft. Their site does not offer very much customization, so we decided to buy a Wordpress.org site ...
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Technique to deal with occasionally blocking json api?
I have a web app that occasionally (after some idleness) will block a very simple request for small chunks of data (30~50 kb) up to 20 or so seconds. Assuming I can't refactor or modify the API, is ...
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Which timeout should I set to an external service?
This service is a remote session pool. I need to ask for a session to work with other services. In most cases, this pool will have a session available, so in 15ms I will have a response. But ...
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Prefer examples over Documentation. Is it a behavioral problem?
Whenever I come across a new api or programming language or even simple Linux MAN pages, I always (ever since I remember) avoided then and instead lazily relied on examples for gaining understanding ...
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Where in computer science education does “reuse and integration” find comprehensive coverage?
This intro is only my naive attempt at a mile-high snapshot helping me to position my question. Any user trying to answer my question, that tries to nail down one aspect of programming, will have to ...
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How do I create a DLL to consume a web service (Web API, C#, visual studio 2012)? [migrated]
I have a task to create a DLL that will consume a web service. The web service will contain a couple of functions - retrieve a list from a database, and check if a user was active on a particular ...
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What are the best practices and pitfalls of doing a JS app powered purely by RESTful API? [closed]
We are starting to build a new app and I would like to explore the idea of doing a thick JS client (backbone / angular) with only RESTful API exposed by our application layer. What are some of the ...
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Merge two different API calls into One
I have two different apps in my django project. One is "comment" and an other one is "files". A comment might save some file attached to it.
The current way of creating a comment with attachments is ...
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SQL API instead of a REST API? [closed]
What are the pros and cons of exposing an SQL API instead of a REST API?
Let's assume that this would be a private API – the API developer and user are on the same team.
Probably the biggest problem ...
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How to bypass Oauth2 authentication when the client and resource owner is the same entity?
We are currently working on using an API provided by Mercado Libre which is a maket place for selling various goods.
Their APIs use OAuth 2.0 for authentication.
The problem is that OAuth 2.0 as ...
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Commenting system that integrates with APIs
when coding, I use a lot things to remember to do something in the code itself (inside comments).
Something like that:
var qt = require('node-qt'),
app = new qt.QApplication,
window = new ...
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Should a RESTful API provide data for an entire form?
Let's say I have a JavaScript web application which entirely uses a RESTful API for data.
Let's say this application has a data form, and let's say I'm editing a record at /product/12345. When ...
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Is it good practice to not filter values according to nullability?
Sometimes when I create an API that should enable getting a single value or all values I use the following pattern (passing NULL to the API, means get all rows):
@Usernames - comma separeted list of ...
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Exposing domain models over API
I'm building a simple RESTful API for a web-based application I'm working on, and I'm wondering about the best way to go about exposing my domain models.
Let's say I have a User class and I want to ...
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Returning view code in an API response
I have an API that returns a JSON formatted array of users within a given pair of lat/ long bounds.
I'm using this data to plot a number of markers on a map, based on the location of each user.
I ...
