15 ProstDev posts tagged API — tutorials, guides, and write-ups on API.
Hard-mode rematch of AI Showdown: MuleSoft Edition. Same API-led brief, but every architect requirement is now mandatory: specs, security, secrets, error handling, MUnit, persistence, a parent POM. Here's how Claude and MuleSoft Vibes did with nowhere to hide.
Round 2 of AI Showdown: MuleSoft Edition. I gave Claude, CurieTech AI, and MuleSoft Vibes the same prompt — build a 3-layer API-led network for Customers + Orders — and scored the results on rigor, completeness, and versions.
Learn to connect your Mule app to API Manager and add basic authentication, using clicks, not code.
Feb 28, 2024
Did you know MuleSoft provides this neat Graphical User Interface (GUI) where you can configure your own API specification with just clicks? Let's create a To-Do API specification to see how this visual tool works.
Sep 26, 2023
As you are aware that recently MuleSoft has introduced Universal API Management capabilities via Flex Gateway and API Governance components as part of Anypoint Platform. These two components are very important as a part of API lifecycle management and those will help to manage any APIs using a single platform and ensure that whatever API specs that you are designing are with best practices and all security aspects have been taken care of during API design.
May 31, 2022
Overview of cURL and how to invoke HTTP methods from the command line. I go into detail on how to invoke APIs using HTTP GET and POST requests, as well as how to pass query parameters, URI parameters and headers. This post will explain how to invoke APIs using HTTPS via cURL.
cURL is a command-line tool used to transfer files and invoke APIs over protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. Learn how to send GET, query params, URI params, headers, and POST requests, plus how to print output.
There are a lot of Status Codes reserved for certain API Responses, but we will be looking at the most popular ones: 200, 201, 202, 204, 400, 401, 403, 404, and 500.
Continuing with the last topic, URIs, we will now get started using Postman and learning what Query Parameters are, plus how HTML URL encoding works in a real-life Expedia example.
Learn what a URL and a URI really are and how they fit into our previously defined API diagram, using the public Joke API as a hands-on example.
The most popular HTTP methods are GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE. GET retrieves data, POST creates new data, PUT updates or replaces data, PATCH updates parts of existing data, and DELETE removes data — and how each fits into the API Request and Operation.
Apply policies via Anypoint Platform's API Manager in two different ways: creating Proxy APIs, or without creating Proxy APIs. The main difference is either using the API ID in Auto-Discovery, or letting Mule create a proxy on top of your app.
Sep 15, 2020
Learn about some analogies and real-life examples of APIs to understand them better, including a restaurant, a calculator, and a Human Resources (HR) API using CSV and JSON data types.
The concept of an API can be hard to grasp. This post gives a simple explanation of what an API is, its 4 aspects (Inputs, Operations, Outputs, Data Types), and how Requests and Responses fit together — plus a diagram to refer back to.
What is Regression Testing, and how can you create basic tests for your API using Postman? We cover the concept with a simple metaphor and then build successful and negative-scenario tests for the Slack API.
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