5 ProstDev posts tagged REST — tutorials, guides, and write-ups on REST.
Unsplash has a REST API that provides a bunch of nice features like image search, photo actions, collections, topics and users. This time I have created a new custom connector for Mule 4 to use a couple operations (Get Random Photo and Search Photos).
May 11, 2021
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.
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.
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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.
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