Questions tagged [web-api]
Specific APIs that communicate over web protocols, such as ASP.net Web API, as well as APIs that are exposed to web pages for network communication or apps for device communication
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Designing asp.net core web api to add sub classes/specialized objects
I have not worked with EF for a while.
As an exercise, I am writing a core web api that allows keeping track of a user medias.
A media can be a postcard, a photo album, a recording, a book...
I would ...
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How to structure/design a webapp using a large number of APIs
I am writing a webapp that aggregates a multitude of different APIs to gather data related to astronomy, and then returns the aggregated data in a single API endpoint. There are 7 API's being used, ...
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Which API building practice is better?
Im working on a ERP product, In which backend logics are to be APIs. Right now I have around
80 Tables.
Proposal 1: Creating CRUD APIs for all tables and manipulation of data to be handled in front ...
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API Design: Errors passed between APIs
I work as a developer on a few different APIs that make calls to each other.
Let's take two and call them API-USER and API-BUSINESS.
A user application makes calls to API-USER, which in turn makes ...
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How to organize my controllers in projects in .Net API?
I'm working on a project that is a API with many controllers and modules. Which of the following is the best architectural practice to organizing my API controllers by dll (.NET 4.7 WebAPI)? Why?
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Does it makes sense to implement a REST API for every app?
Is it mandatory to implement a REST API even if it doesn't make sense?
I have created an app consuming REST services from other apps. Now that I have the final result, I wonder if it is needed to ...
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Signing up users who have not registered
I am building an app where you can invite your friends to join the platform and discuss various topics. (almost Reddit).
Functionality: When you create a topic you can enter the email of users you ...
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Separation of concerns and other best practices across Controllers, Services, Providers and Stores in ASP.NET when building a REST web api
I am traditionally a desktop app developer, but circumstance has thrust me into the role of doing web client and corresponding REST api logic for a project I am involved in. Unfortunately, I'm a one-...
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Should I use a Web API between a client and Entity Framework?
I am creating a database that will keep track of my company's clients, and an app that will allow users inside the company to read/update/etc. the database. I'm using code-first EF Core to manage the ...
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Web server archicture
This may seem like an odd question but it's something I've yet to find a "proper" answer for. I've tried googling but I don't get anything useful (maybe I'm looking for the wrong terms).
I'm ...
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Coworker wants to use POST to pass ID's in API routes
We've recently started working on an API, and I'm running into a philosophy issue. This is only my second API I've worked on, but the standard I've seen for retrieving a single model is always a GET, ...
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Cart Checkout Item Check alternative
Not to sure if this is the right place to ask this.
But I have more of a Theory Related question then Completely Technical
I want to Propose my Issue at hand and then I'm looking for someone to give ...
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Should I separate client-side API calls into a separate .js file and class, and reference that?
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Instead of calling WebApi straight from a Web Forms User Control, I have created JS class which contains functions returning jQuery AJAX requests. The control would instantiate the class and ...
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Can reactive streams simplify API development even for low-scale applications?
The mainstream opinion about using a reactive non-blocking backend is that it increases performance for large numbers of clients but sacrifices maintainability due to increased complexity.
I am in a ...
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What is a simple implementation of onion architecture for C# ASP.NET Core WebAPI and SQL db that is not full DDD and CQRS?
I'm a programming teacher. My students learn structured and then object oriented programming in JavaScript and C#. They learn SQL, MS SQL Server, Dapper and EntityFramework Core.
After this they ...
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API endpoint POST vs GET
Help me settle an internal question.
We have an endpoint which we all agree should be a GET, because all it's doing is calling a stored proc and returning a set of data. However, there is a set of ...
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How to designing API JSON Response with nullable fields
We were discussing how to design a API response, for simplicity, think of having to give information of all the different types of facilities available in a city:
{
"city": {
"cityName": "...
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How do I make my Browser Extension send a Selection it captured to a Database/Web App so it can be stored in the user's account?
I am building a Browser Extension that captures a Selection made by the user in any web page, and stores it in his account. I don't quite know how to proceed with this, however.
My initial thought ...
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JSON:API - I don't think I have an `id` or `type` to return
I'm building a Restful API and trying to use JSON:API format for my response. Looking at https://jsonapi.org/format/, it states:
A resource object MUST contain at least the following top-level
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GET Parameters in Restful API
I'm in the starting phases of designing an API. I'd like it to be Restful and comply with what's commonly considered best practices.
One of my resources need to accept several query string parameters....
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REST api - search url
I'm building a REST api and want to make sure to follow the best practices.
I need to expose a method which will return a 'Document' entity by its 'Lot' number.
It is possible that for a specific '...
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How to calculate the costs for an on-prem API request in terms of money?
My manager asked me how much it costs (in money, currency, $) to make a REST API request from our client application to one of our services. We do not use cloud, we have on-prem servers.
The payload ...
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Is it a bad idea to pass JSON objects on the query string for an API “search” operation?
I'm building an API endpoint for a UI grid to search, filter, and display a list of domain objects, let's call them "widgets." In the past, I would have built this with a list of named query string ...
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Which authentication should be used for external users (not registered with the system)
I'm working with a project that uses ASP.NET Core 2.2. The main solution contains different projects, including APIs for a mobile application, APIs to integrate the system with third parties, a web ...
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Web API layer vs Application layer
I am just wondering should the presentation layer connects to the Web API layer first then WEB API layer connects to the Application layer?
Let's say for ATM system which has Check Balance function, ...
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Which HTTP method to run an algorithm on input and return result?
I have a requirement to get input from a web app UI, send this input to the server who will run an algorithm on it. The web server will send back the output of the algorithm the the UI. Is an HTTP ...
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Rest application header based vs path based service routing
i have a rest API that is a front end to a more complex SOAP based service. The soap based service uses extended(custom) WSA-addressing headers in order to perform its routing. The extension of the ...
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How do I overcome the limit of 4000 results returned from the REST API?
I have an application which records the company man hours of employees and other related details. Because it gets updated everyday or when a new employee is added, it tends to lead to a very large ...
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Using WebAPI as infrastructure layer in ASP.NET MVC
I'm starting a new asp.net mvc core project and for my infrastructure layer I'd like to use WebAPI as this layer should be usable in other solutions besides this one.
I'm not really experienced with ...
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which layer must check if something(like account etc) exist in database
I am implementing a web api and i have crated three layers,data access layer,business layer and presentation layer.
In data access layer I have a method which create a user.I use a transaction which ...
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Is it wrong to build as much granularity as possible into a REST API?
I was recently considering the difference between using raw SQL and using a query builder like knex.js for writing dynamic queries so that I get any level of granularity for filtering database tables.
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Corrrect to send JSON object in params?
Maybe I'm being dense, but is it common practice to create an API which requires users to submit GET params as an object? I've encountered one which has me submitting GET requests like...
http://www....
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Is creating ViewModels in Web API a bad practice?
So, somebody at work who is twice as experienced than I am, told us that we must not create ViewModel classes within Web API. (We are using Angular for UI)
In his opinion ViewModel is ASP.NET MVC ...
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How to handle frequent update requests to an API which is connected to the database?
In a document editing web application such as Google Docs or Evernote, sync/save has to happen almost instantaneously to make sure data loss is minimal in case of a connection failure or a client ...
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Restricting web API access to a resource to the unauthenticated resource creator
My question is about the best way for allowing an unauthenticated user who has created a resource to subsequently access and modify that resource they created via web API.
My web API identifies ...
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How to manage breaking updates in an API & database
So I have been working on my mobile app for a while and it is live and in production.
Because we released the app prematurely and are continuously improving current features and making them more ...
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Architecture for business functions impacting several Dataobjects/database tables
I am trying to create an example project Web API to see how "clean" I can remake the Delphi(Pascal) API we are developing on my job.
I have created a solution which as of now contains 3 different ...
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REST: How to reference existing resources in a HTTP POST request body?
This question relates to a somewhat more specific case than the one discussed in How can I create a RESTful calculator?
It should be assumed that the values to be calculated are not simple integers, ...
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Interfaces vs concrete types in DTOs and response classes
Had a discussion that i felt i needed some external input on. Normally always use interfaces instead of concrete types (on lists, injectable services and so forth). For example in lists i just pass ...
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Should two different set of login APIs follwing REST have write access to the same DB?
Like for example, /api_1/login and /api_2/login writing in the same table of the same database.
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Should an ASP.NET Web API application use Entity Framework in the API controllers?
Im a bit confused about what is best practice when working with Entity Framework and ASP.NET Web API.
I am working on a project that contains a iOS/Android app and an API the app will use to ...
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HTTP 404 for REST calls from client side (browsers)
I'm having troubles with the issue of distinguishing between "real" 404s and 404s where the path is correct but the id, for example, doesn't exist when it comes to client side apps.
Most REST ...
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Web Service returning serialized helper objects
I had the idea to have a route in my REST API that returns serialized (PHP) helper objects. The client code then can use those objects to format some complex JSON structures for the next request. When ...
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Authentication setup advice for web app and its backend API
I am fairly new to web development, and I am learning to build web applications. I am facing a problem figuring out how to set up authentication mechanisms for a multi-user application. Let me provide ...
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Who or what exactly does the “Same Origin Policy” aim to protect
As I understand the "Same Origin Policy" is a browser security feature that aims to protect the user. It prevents scripts to load data from another webserver (typicall with ajax).
So esentially there ...
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Need suggestions for creating field level permissions which can be changed dynamically in an app
This is currently my User-Role-Permission model in the Db schema (excluded other tables to avoid confusion). My implementation goes like this: I have a Customer table and each Role has a different set ...
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Confused about how APIs are called
I'm new to APIs. Conceptually, I understand what an API is, but I get confused when it comes to the some of the technical details.
All of the tutorials I've read talk about URLs and endpoints, and ...
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How to handle adding new field / partial data update for a gRPC API?
Assuming we have following message that will be used to update data and it just got updated to version 2.
message HelloRequest {
string name = 1; // version 1
bool is_valid = 2; // version 2
}
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Adding resources to subresource REST API
I'm trying to build an web API that closely represents a library of books. I currently have the following routes.
GET /api/books
GET /api/books/:bookID
GET /api/libraries
POST /api/libraries
This ...
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Building a schedule app - best design pattern for collection on Rails API
I’m building a web app using Rails API on server side. The goal is to make a planning manager. I want my users to be able to plan ‘daily’ events, which will display at some specific weekdays, with ...
