API Design Patterns

JJ Geewax

ISBN 10: 161729585X / ISBN 13: 9781617295850

Published by Manning Publications, US, 2021

About this Item

Modern software systems are composed of many servers, services, and other components that communicate through APIs. As a developer, your job is to make sure these APIs are stable, reliable, and easy to use for other developers.   API Design Patterns  provides you with a unique catalog of design standards and best practices to ensure your APIs are flexible and user-friendly. Fully illustrated with examples and relevant use-cases, this essential guide covers patterns for API fundamentals and real-world system designs, along with quite a few not-so-common scenarios and edge-cases. about the technologyAPI design patterns are a useful set of best practice specifications and common solutions to API design challenges. Using accepted design patterns creates a shared language amongst developers who create and consume APIs, which is especially critical given the explosion of mission-critical public-facing web APIs. API Patterns are still being developed and discovered. This collection, gathered and tested by Google API expert JJ Geewax, is the first of its kind. about the book API Design Patterns  draws on the collected wisdom of the API community, including the internal developer knowledge base at Google, laying out an innovative set of design patterns for developing both internal and public-facing APIs. In this essential guide, Google Software Engineer JJ Geewax provides a unique and authoritative catalog of patterns that promote flexibility and ease-of-use in your APIs. Each pattern in the catalog is fully illustrated with its own example API, use-cases for solving common API design challenges, and scenarios for tricky edge issues using a pattern's more subtle features. With the best practices laid out in this book, you can ensure your APIs are adaptive in the face of change and easy for your clients to incorporate into their projects.   what's inside A full case-study of building an API and adding featuresThe guiding principles that underpin most API patternsFundamental patterns for resource layout and namingAdvanced patterns for special interactions and data transformations about the readerAimed at software developers with experience using APIs, who want to start building their own. about the author JJ Geewax  is a software engineer at Google, focusing on Google Cloud Platform and API design. He is also the author of   Google Cloud Platform in Action.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: API Design Patterns
• Publisher: Manning Publications, US
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 161729585X
• ISBN 13: 9781617295850
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 800 grams

About this title

Synopsis

API Design Patterns lays out a set of design principles for building internal and public-facing APIs.

Summary
A collection of best practices and design standards for web and internal APIs.

In API Design Patterns you will learn:

• Guiding principles for API patterns
• Fundamentals of resource layout and naming
• Handling data types for any programming language
• Standard methods that ensure predictability
• Field masks for targeted partial updates
• Authentication and validation methods for secure APIs
• Collective operations for moving, managing, and deleting data
• Advanced patterns for special interactions and data transformations

API Design Patterns reveals best practices for building stable, user-friendly APIs. These design patterns can be applied to solve common API problems and flexibly altered to fit your specific needs. Hands-on examples and relevant use-cases illustrate patterns for API fundamentals, advanced functionalities, and even uncommon scenarios.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology
APIs are contracts that define how applications, services, and components communicate. API design patterns provide a shared set of best practices, specifications and standards that ensure APIs are reliable and simple for other developers to use. This book collects and explains the most important patterns from both the API design community and the experts at Google.

About the book
API Design Patterns lays out a set of design principles for building internal and public-facing APIs. Google API expert JJ Geewax presents patterns that ensure your APIs are consistent, scalable, and flexible. You'll improve the design of the most common APIs, plus discover techniques for tricky edge cases. Precise illustrations, relevant examples, and detailed scenarios make every pattern clear and easy to understand.

What's inside

• Guiding principles for API patterns
• Fundamentals of resource layout and naming
• Advanced patterns for special interactions and data transformations
• A detailed case-study on building an API and adding features

About the reader
For developers building web and internal APIs in any language.

About the author
JJ Geewaxis a software engineer at Google, focusing on Google Cloud Platform, API design, and real-time payment systems. He is also the author of Manning's Google Cloud Platform in Action.

Table of Contents

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

• 1 Introduction to APIs
• 2 Introduction to API design patterns

PART 2: DESIGN PRINCIPLES

• 3 Naming
• 4 Resource scope and hierarchy
• 5 Data types and defaults

PART 3: FUNDAMENTALS

• 6 Resource identification
• 7 Standard methods
• 8 Partial updates and retrievals
• 9 Custom methods
• 10 Long-running operations
• 11 Rerunnable jobs

PART 4: RESOURCE RELATIONSHIPS

• 12 Singleton sub-resources
• 13 Cross references
• 14 Association resources
• 15 Add and remove custom methods
• 16 Polymorphism

PART 5: COLLECTIVE OPERATIONS

• 17 Copy and move
• 18 Batch operations
• 19 Criteria-based deletion
• 20 Anonymous writes
• 21 Pagination
• 22 Filtering
• 23 Importing and exporting

PART 6: SAFETY AND SECURITY

• 24 Versioning and compatibility
• 25 Soft deletion
• 26 Request deduplication
• 27 Request validation
• 28 Resource revisions
• 29 Request retrial
• 30 Request authentication

About the Author

JJ Geewax is a software engineer at Google, focusing on Google Cloud Platform, API design, and real-time payment systems. He is also the author of Manning’s Google Cloud Platform in Action.