Summary

A Japanese-language guide to designing, developing, and operating Web APIs by Takaaki Mizuno. It argues that an API can become hard to use through its design choices alone, and that this also makes maintaining and operating it after release difficult, so designing it beautifully matters. Working from the idea that a beautifully designed API is easy to use, easy to change, robust, and not embarrassing, the book clarifies how to design and operate an API more effectively, and what to watch for in order to avoid common traps and pitfalls. Its target is the simple type of API where accessing a URI returns data such as XML or JSON, namely the XML-over-HTTP and JSON-over-HTTP styles. Readers come away knowing the thinking and techniques behind Web API design.

Target Readers

• Developers settling the design of a JSON-over-HTTP or XML-over-HTTP API before release, when that design will also decide how hard it is to maintain and operate afterward
• Engineers working on RESTful API development who need to know the common traps and pitfalls in endpoint design and HTTP method use
• Developers who need explicit criteria for judging an API design: easy to use, easy to change, robust, and not embarrassing

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Publisher

O'Reilly Japan

ISBN

978-4873116860

Published

Nov 2014

List price

¥2,420incl. taxMay differ from the actual selling price on Amazon