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Web API URI Schema Design
I'm in the middle of designing an API for a very basic flashcard application for learning purposes and I'm wondering if you all think there can be any improvements.
In the app, a Folder contains ...
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design practice for business layer when supporting API versioning
Is there any design pattern or practice recommended for business layer when dealing with multiple API version.
For example, I have something like this.
http://site.com/blogs/v1/?count=10
which ...
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Implementing the command pattern in a RESTful API
I'm in the process of designing an HTTP API, hopefully making it as RESTful as possible.
There are some actions which functionality spreads over a few resources, and sometime needs to be undone.
I ...
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event listener pattern in api - what should adding the same listener twice do?
In designing an API that provides an event listening interface, it seems there are two conflicting ways of treating calls to add/remove listeners:
Multiple calls to addListener will only add a ...
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Is there a standard for machine-readable descriptions of RESTful services?
I've interacted with a few RESTful APIs that provided excellent documentation for humans and descriptive URIs, but none of them seem to return machine-readable descriptions of themselves.
It's not ...
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When designing an enterprise API, what level is appropriate for separating libraries?
Assume we are developing a REST system for an enterprise company to expose the companies resources in a Java based application. Ultimately you have one web application, and domain libraries. My ...
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Request / Reply , how should one initiate the actual sending of the transmission?
I'm working on Language level interfaces to web API's. These libraries are of course built around existing HTTP Request/Reply interfaces. I see myself as having a few options
submit method on the ...
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Working with a restful Api; what resources would you like available to start with?
When working with a web based restful api what resources would you like to work with from the beginning when developing a system against it?
Web based documentation?
Working example? Simple? ...
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What are the best patterns/designs for stateful API development?
I am about to implement a API for my TCP/IP server written in Java. Right now I have a temporary method that takes a String, executes a command based on the String and returns a String basically like ...
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What do you think of Android API design?
When I got acquainted with Android platform my first impression was WOW, that's must be a super awesome thing. But when I started developing for it I felt that its learning curve could be simpler. ...
