Creating Maintainable APIs A Practical, Case-Study Approach

This book explains the importance of having straightforward and maintainable APIs in order for services to be usable and maintainable. Although, the focus is on services, this book also emphasizes how the core principles apply even to bare classes. The overall context of this book is to classify the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Varga, Ervin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA Apress 2016, 2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Information Hiding and APIs
  • 2. Modular Design
  • 3. Designing Classes for Reuse
  • 4. TDD as an API Design Technique
  • 5. Identifying Resources
  • 6. Versioning REST APIs
  • 7. Encoding Actions on Resources
  • 8. Implementing Synchronous and Asynchronous REST APIs
  • 9. Documenting REST APIs
  • 10. Testing REST APIs
  • 11. Implementing Messaging APIs
  • 12. Apache Kafka as a Messaging Hub
  • 13. Testing Messaging APIs
  • 14. Schema Based Messages
  • 15. The Core JSON API
  • 16. Evolving the JSON API
  • 17. Katharsis