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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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 ...
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Dealing with API errors
I'm building a shop system which works in three parts: a mobile app (Android/iOS) which is used by customers to make orders, view products and so on, a desktop application, used by the managers to ...
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Is creating a leaderboard web API that can't be fudged possible?
Let's say you have a game, and players of your game can get scores. You also want to be able to post these scores to a server using calls to a web API. Obviously, you want to be able to tell who sent ...
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RESTful API - Adding nested resources as a query parameter?
I recently had thoughts on handling the flat vs nested architecture when designing a RESTful API.
Would there be anything wrong with having a system where your nested resources can be specified ...
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Should JWT token be generated on the server and then sent to the client to use for requests? [closed]
I want to confirm that I am going about querying a 3rd party JWT API correctly.
I am building a website that will be requesting data from a 3rd party API.
The 3rd party API uses the JWT ...
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Command Waiting On Event Sourcing Micro-services
I'm very new to micro-services but am trying to learn, so apologies for any ignorance or incorrect information.
I have been looking at event-sourcing architecture for microservices and I have a ...
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Architecture for independent modules writing in the same database
Let's say I have a database with a table called "invoices".
Then I have a web application where users can manually create invoices against said table. I also have a desktop application that can ...
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RESTful API Endpoints - Concrete vs OO versioning
I am looking at Versioning Micro Services solutions and got a little carried away with OO design. Using WebAPI, I got to the point where I can use OO design to choose the correct version to run with ...
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REST API - Standard for also creating required parent entities?
We're creating a new API to add new Jobs into a legacy system. The question deals with how to handle creating a Job's required parent entities when you don't know the IDs of those parent entities to ...
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How to handle dependencies in Web APIs
I'm struggling with a decision about how to design a web-API where I create new "things".
We roughly follow the API guidelines of Zalando, which do provide a nice starting point for web-APIs (https://...
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Should all my asp.net MVC controllers use Web APIs?
The thing that I don't understand is the prioritization between MVC Controllers and Web APIs.
Consider I want to make a website. I can either program to APIs and for the presentational layer, force ...
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Design Restful API Get manipulated data from resource [closed]
I am new to rest, I have an entity called availableJobPositions. I want to get most Interesting job by sending a person skills. which url is good in restful:
api/positions/skill/most-intersting?...
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Should I put the messages for business logic validations in API?
I have a REST API written using ASP.NET Core Web API. There are a few business logic based messages I want to send to the clients from the API.
I am in a dilemma on which of the following ways I can ...
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Web API Bad Request design
My organization is developing a Web API server. We will also develop the only clients authorized to access the API. We will follow the usual technique of returning Bad Request (400) errors for data ...
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What is the best practice for sending a large array of strings to an API
I'm building a simple app that is a client web application and an API behind it. I'm combining two third-party APIs, one needs to be called from my client application (for ease of authentication) and ...
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How to handle list arguments with invalid and valid elements
When you have an endpoint that can take a set of valid parameters, how do you do validation on a non-empty set of elements?
Say you have a request /api/endpoint?my_list=1,2,3 where 1, 2, 3 are the ...
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How to consume nested objects in API resource
I am building my first web application, it links to the serverside through RESTfull Web API (Angular on client side, ASP.Net Core and EF Core on serverside, Automapper to map API Resources to/from ...
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Designing anonymous registration website
I am developing a website where customers can register products they bought in order to receive a benefit in the form of e.g. a cashback, a discount or promotional goods. In the future, we also plan ...
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How to describe an API-like request that is browser-to-browser?
I'm building a web application that has a feature which allows visitors to directly access resources using URL patterns, for example:
www.site.com/client/[clientID]/orders
www.site.com/client/[...
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Why should I use REST API?
I somehow get the point of REST API, like for example you want to get the list of customers to the database server, you have to request a GET method and the server will throw a response with a ...
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Best Practice: Third party API on client (Desktop) or Server
I have a small Desktop application (Windows+Mac) that uses third-party API calls (RESTful) to collect some data and present results to users.
At this moment, the API calls (open and free APIs) are ...
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how to expose complex actions in RESTApi using http verbs
consider the following REST resource Account
{
number:"number-000",
name: "name",
customer : {},
type : {},
status : "status",
balance : 0,
rating : 0.0
}
Now say we have the ...
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Logging web API POST requests for retry to outside service
My web API talks to an outside service running elsewhere, based on the web API requests (mostly POST). There is a message queue (RabbitMQ) that sits in between them, for request/response from either ...
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Best way to make insert data in logs web API. REST or WebSockets
I want to make a centralized log web API, so it will have a large amount of data per seconds. the logs will comming from others WEB API
I was thinking if i make the REST API, all of the POST made ...
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Data is in database or get from API, where should API request code goes?
For me, the data I want to retrieve may be in database for which I can use properties of model and also relationships, but if the record is not a property and no relationship exists for that ...
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Recommended manner of installation for an open source web application and api?
I'm currently working on my own open source project.
There are two parts to it at the moment, a .NET core web API and an Angular client side app.
I would like to get your views on installation/setup ...
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Keep Hitting 3rd party API or Store Commonly Queried Data In DB?
Colleague and I have begun a long (and hopefully fruitful) project. I've been building and have come to my first crux, and now I ask the experts of the Stack Exchange for their guidance.
I'll keep ...
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Use same API for both website and other clients or not?
Lets say I am building some large application ( multi-page app ) using Laravel. And laravel will allow me to make an API and a website on the same application.
Since the website and the API ...
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Is it a good idea to ask for requestId in each API call?
I see some services which takes a requestId from client as the mandatory attribute while some services doesn't. I feel it is a good idea to have a request Id from the clients because it helps in ...
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Retrieving JSON and image representation of a resource
I am developing a RESTful API designed primarily (but not exclusively) for consumption by a web application. For the purposes of this question, the API is a set of GET endpoints. The main endpoint is /...
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Separating models in a Backend-For-Frontend (BFF) API
At the moment I have a frontend client calling several backend REST APIs. For example a call may be to get information about a certain vehicle. Then the client will call REST API A to get some ...
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The Frontend-Backend Vs. Backend-Backend
I've seen this pattern pop up in a couple of different teams. They have a server with a REST API and a frontend web project.
What commonly happens is the frontend developer finds their requests are ...
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Check if user is logged in when using JWT
I have an app that uses JWT tokens for user authorization. Now, I need to be capable of deactivating users (users won't be allowed to use the system but still exist in the database), but as a ...
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Web API POST: single item vs collection
No code to show (and not really a code issue) but I have an iot-ish application running that is using PI Zeroes as clients and they are slow. A single POST takes about 10 seconds round trip, the delay ...
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How to implement HTTP PUT correctly
I'm really looking for one good example how to PUT operations should be implemented correctly.
What I understood until now:
The operation must be idempotent
When the resource doesn't exists it will ...
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Should we design our code from the beginning to enable unit testing?
There's a debate going on in our team at the moment as to whether modifying code design to allow unit testing is a code smell, or to what extent it can be done without being a code smell. This has ...
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What is the optimal pattern to ensure a priority API gets cycles over its related (non-priority) API?
I have two synchronous web APIs that perform the same work but one needs to be prioritized over the other (the former is called from a client, whereas the latter is a caching optimization for before a ...
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Breaking 3-tier architecture into multi-tier architecture
Recently I have been working on a rather large system with Vue.js for a single page app (SPA) and an API for the backend. The customer is concerned with the security, performance and maintainability.
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Unit testing about API endpoints and parameters
Consider a simple web application, I'll use a Python(ish) example, but i think the question is relevant for other languages as well.
The user is trying to fetch a page, and in order to render that ...
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Is Web API suitable as services for IoT?
The issue I care about here is high throughput, there are a lot of sensors (monitoring devices) which send data to the server at high frequency.
It looks really like that we have to use UDP protocol ...
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Is It good practice on API design to use different object model for getting object and creating
While mostly every company got it's standard on APIs, the question just came out after that one of my colleagues stated we must use different object models for creating and getting objects from API.
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C# .Net Core API design - interfaces vs DTOs
I'm designing a relatively simple web application using .net core. I've mostly done desktop development in my career so far, so I'm a bit new to the nuances between desktop and web development.
In ...
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Permissive vs. Strict API Message validation
We had a interesting debate today over what our REST API should default to doing when validating a request body where unexpected fields are present. I think we ended the conversation in a good place, ...
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WebAPI Versioning practice - Common version to all controllers
I am using Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Versioning for versioning my WebAPI project.
I already used version through the header with CustomControllerSelector class. After learning this package, I am ...
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Am I making API creation difficult when it comes to authentication?
I know the sites are not geared for recommendations so I am hoping to pose this question in a way that doesn't ask for recommendations. Questions comments are welcome.
I am just getting involved in ...
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Keep sync Authentication Server user profile with App Server best practices
I have two servers first one is Authentication Server that handles refresh token, AccessToken and external login. On external login, I create user and store profile information like first name and ...
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Difference between REST & HTTP REST implementations
REST principles are described here:
https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm#sec_5_2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer#...
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Approach for storing lots of data of unknown type in database
I have an web app to which external applications can be connected to send their data. This is for telemetry purposes.
The web app is not controlling what kind of telemetry data is sent to it - it can ...
