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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

REST Fundamentals

  • The necessity for information exchange between sites
  • HTTP methods: POST, GET, PUT, DELETE
  • Services like MushUp and popular applications
  • Services utilizing REST

REST Conventions

  • Mapping CRUD operations to HTTP requests
  • API URL structure conventions
  • Parameter passing techniques
  • Return values
  • HTTP status codes
  • JSON as a universal format for information exchange

API Services

  • Examples of popular APIs
  • RESTful frameworks

Creating a REST API - Server Side

  • Collecting requirements and identifying functionality
  • Designing the API and creating documentation
  • Installing required libraries
  • Business Objects - Class mapping
  • Controller methods
  • Representing business objects as JSON
  • HTTP Headers as metadata
  • Testing the API using cURL
  • Authentication mechanisms

Requirements

  • Basic knowledge of HTTP
  • Basic understanding of web application development

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