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Focus on providing precise and accurate information in your answers. **Elapsed Time: 0.19 seconds** FINAL QUERY Final Query: CONTEXT: ########## File: Web%20API%20Design%20-%20Brian%20Mulloy%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 1 Context: Web API Design Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love Brian Mulloy #################### File: Web%20API%20Design%20-%20Brian%20Mulloy%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 37 Context: Web API Design - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love Resources Representational State Transfer (REST), Roy Thomas Fielding, 2000 RESTful API Design Webinar, 2nd edition, Brian Mulloy, 2011 Apigee API Tech & Best Practices Blog API Craft Google Group About Brian Mulloy Brian Mulloy, Apigee Brian has 15 years of experience ranging from enterprise software to founding a Web startup. He co-founded and was CEO of Swivel, a Website for social data analysis. He was President and General Manager of Grand Central, a cloud-based offering for application infrastructure (before we called it the cloud). And was Director of Product Marketing at BEA Systems. Brian holds a degree in Physics from the University of Michigan. Brian is a frequent contributor on the Apigee API Tech & best practices blog, the Apigee YouTube channel, the API Craft Google Group, and Webinars. #################### File: Web%20API%20Design%20-%20Brian%20Mulloy%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 35 Context: Web API Design - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love 35 The developer and the app that consume the API are on top. The API façade isolates the developer and the application and the API. Making a clean design in the facade allows you to decompose one really hard problem into a few simpler problems. “Use the façade pattern when you want to provide a simple interface to a complex subsystem. Subsystems often get more complex as they evolve.” Design Patterns – Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides) Implementing an API façade pattern involves three basic steps. 1 - Design the ideal API – design the URLs, request parameters and responses, payloads, headers, query parameters, and so on. The API design should be self-consistent. 2 - Implement the design with data stubs. This allows application developers to use your API and give you feedback even before your API is connected to internal systems. 3 - Mediate or integrate between the façade and the systems. Big System DB Content Mgmt SOAP JDB C RSS API Facade #################### File: Web%20API%20Design%20-%20Brian%20Mulloy%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 3 Context: Web API Design - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love 3 Introduction If you’re reading this, chances are that you care about designing Web APIs that developers will love and that you’re interested in applying proven design principles and best practices to your Web API. One of the sources for our design thinking is REST. Because REST is an architectural style and not a strict standard, it allows for a lot of flexibly. Because of that flexibility and freedom of structure, there is also a big appetite for design best practices. This e-book is a collection of design practices that we have developed in collaboration with some of the leading API teams around the world, as they craft their API strategy through a design workshop that we provide at Apigee. We call our point of view in API design “pragmatic REST”, because it places the success of the developer over and above any other design principle. The developer is the customer for the Web API. The success of an API design is measured by how quickly developers can get up to speed and start enjoying success using your API. We’d love your feedback – whether you agree, disagree, or have some additional practices and tips to add. The API Craft Google Group is a place where Web API design enthusiasts come together to share and debate design practices – we’d love to see you there. Are you a Pragmatist or a RESTafarian? Let’s start with our overall point of view on API design. We advocate pragmatic, not dogmatic REST. What do we mean by dogmatic? You might have seen discussion threads on true REST - some of them can get pretty strict and wonky. Mike Schinkel sums it up well - defining a RESTafarian as follows: “A RESTifarian is a zealous proponent of the REST software architectural style as defined by Roy T. Fielding in Chapter 5 of his PhD. dissertation at UC Irvine. You can find RESTifarians in the wild on the REST-discuss mailing list. But be careful, RESTifarians can be extremely meticulous when discussing the finer points of REST …” Our view: approach API design from the ‘outside-in’ perspective. This means we start by asking - what are we trying to achieve with an API? The API’s job is to make the developer as successful as possible. The orientation for APIs is to think about design choices from the application developer’s point of view. #################### File: Web%20API%20Design%20-%20Brian%20Mulloy%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 36 Context: Web API Design - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love 36 Using the three-step approach you’ve decomposed one big problem to three smaller problems. If you try to solve the one big problem, you’ll be starting in code, and trying to build up from your business logic (systems of record) to a clean API interface. You would be exposing objects or tables or RSS feeds from each silo, mapping each to XML in the right format before exposing to the app. It is a machine–to-machine orientation focused around an app and is difficult to get this right. Taking the façade pattern approach helps shift the thinking from a silo approach in a number of important ways. First, you can get buy in around each of the three separate steps and have people more clearly understand how you’re taking a pragmatic approach to the design. Secondly, the orientation shifts from the app to the app developer. The goal becomes to ensure that the app developer can use your API because the design is self- consistent and intuitive. Because of where it is in the architecture, the façade becomes an interesting gateway. You can now have the façade implement the handling of common patterns (for pagination, queries, ordering, sorting, etc.), authentication, authorization, versioning, and so on, uniformly across the API. (This is a big topic and a full discussion is beyond the scope of this article.) Other benefits for the API team include being more easily able to adapt to different use cases regardless of whether they are internal developer, partner, or open scenarios. The API team will be able to keep pace with the changing needs of developers, including the ever-changing protocols and languages. It is also easier to extend an API by building out more capability from your enterprise or plugging in additional existing systems. Mediate API Facade Big System DB Content Mgmt SOAP JDBC RSS Ideal Design #################### File: Web%20API%20Design%20-%20Brian%20Mulloy%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 18 Context: Web API Design - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love 18 In summary: Support partial response by adding optional fields in a comma delimited list. Use limit and offset to make it easy for developers to paginate objects. #################### File: Web%20API%20Design%20-%20Brian%20Mulloy%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 4 Context: Web API Design - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love 4 Why? Look at the value chain below – the application developer is the lynchpin of the entire API strategy. The primary design principle when crafting your API should be to maximize developer productivity and success. This is what we call pragmatic REST. Pragmatic REST is a design problem You have to get the design right, because design communicates how something will be used. The question becomes - what is the design with optimal benefit for the app developer? The developer point of view is the guiding principle for all the specific tips and best practices we’ve compiled. Nouns are good; verbs are bad The number one principle in pragmatic RESTful design is: keep simple things simple. Keep your base URL simple and intuitive The base URL is the most important design affordance of your API. A simple and intuitive base URL design makes using your API easy. Affordance is a design property that communicates how something should be used without requiring documentation. A door handle's design should communicate whether you pull or push. Here's an example of a conflict between design affordance and documentation - not an intuitive interface! #################### File: Web%20API%20Design%20-%20Brian%20Mulloy%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 5 Context: Web API Design - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love 5 A key litmus test we use for Web API design is that there should be only 2 base URLs per resource. Let's model an API around a simple object or resource, a dog, and create a Web API for it. The first URL is for a collection; the second is for a specific element in the collection. /dogs /dogs/1234 Boiling it down to this level will also force the verbs out of your base URLs. Keep verbs out of your base URLs Many Web APIs start by using a method-driven approach to URL design. These method- based URLs sometimes contain verbs - sometimes at the beginning, sometimes at the end. For any resource that you model, like our dog, you can never consider one object in isolation. Rather, there are always related and interacting resources to account for - like owners, veterinarians, leashes, food, squirrels, and so on. #################### File: Web%20API%20Design%20-%20Brian%20Mulloy%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 24 Context: Web API Design - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love 24 In keeping with the spirit of REST, your developer portal should follow this pattern: developers.yourtopleveldomain. For example, developers.teachdogrest.com Do Web redirects Then optionally, if you can sense from requests coming in from the browser where the developer really needs to go, you can redirect. Say a developer types api.teachdogrest.com in the browser but there's no other information for the GET request, you can probably safely redirect to your developer portal and help get the developer where they really need to be. api developers (if from browser) dev  developers developer  developers #################### File: Web%20API%20Design%20-%20Brian%20Mulloy%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 9 Context: Web API Design - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love 9 Simplify associations - sweep complexity under the ‘?’ In this section, we explore API design considerations when handling associations between resources and parameters like states and attributes. Associations Resources almost always have relationships to other resources. What's a simple way to express these relationships in a Web API? Let's look again at the API we modeled in nouns are good, verbs are bad - the API that interacts with our dogs resource. Remember, we had two base URLs: /dogs and dogs/1234. We're using HTTP verbs to operate on the resources and collections. Our dogs belong to owners. To get all the dogs belonging to a specific owner, or to create a new dog for that owner, do a GET or a POST: GET /owners/5678/dogs POST /owners/5678/dogs Now, the relationships can be complex. Owners have relationships with veterinarians, who have relationships with dogs, who have relationships with food, and so on. It's not uncommon to see people string these together making a URL 5 or 6 levels deep. Remember that once you have the primary key for one level, you usually don't need to include the levels above because you've already got your specific object. In other words, you shouldn't need too many cases where a URL is deeper than what we have above /resource/identifier/resource. Sweep complexity behind the ‘?’ Most APIs have intricacies beyond the base level of a resource. Complexities can include many states that can be updated, changed, queried, as well as the attributes associated with a resource. Make it simple for developers to use the base URL by putting optional states and attributes behind the HTTP question mark. To get all red dogs running in the park: GET /dogs?color=red&state=running&location=park In summary, keep your API intuitive by simplifying the associations between resources, and sweeping parameters and other complexities under the rug of the HTTP question mark. #################### File: Web%20API%20Design%20-%20Brian%20Mulloy%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 6 Context: Web API Design - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love 6 Think about the method calls required to address all the objects in the dogs’ world. The URLs for our resource might end up looking something like this. It's a slippery slope - soon you have a long list of URLs and no consistent pattern making it difficult for developers to learn how to use your API. Use HTTP verbs to operate on the collections and elements. For our dog resources, we have two base URLs that use nouns as labels, and we can operate on them with HTTP verbs. Our HTTP verbs are POST, GET, PUT, and DELETE. (We think of them as mapping to the acronym, CRUD (Create-Read-Update-Delete).) With our two resources (/dogs and /dogs/1234) and the four HTTP verbs, we have a rich set of capability that's intuitive to the developer. Here is a chart that shows what we mean for our dogs. #################### File: Web%20API%20Design%20-%20Brian%20Mulloy%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 2 Context: 2 Table of Contents Web API Design - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 3 Nouns are good; verbs are bad ......................................................................................................... 4 Plural nouns and concrete names ................................................................................................... 8 Simplify associations - sweep complexity under the ‘?’ ........................................................... 9 Handling errors ................................................................................................................................... 10 Tips for versioning.............................................................................................................................. 13 Pagination and partial response.................................................................................................... 16 What about responses that don’t involve resources? ............................................................ 19 Supporting multiple formats .......................................................................................................... 20 What about attribute names? ......................................................................................................... 21 Tips for search ...................................................................................................................................... 22 Consolidate API requests in one subdomain ............................................................................. 23 Tips for handling exceptional behavior ...................................................................................... 25 Authentication...................................................................................................................................... 27 Making requests on your API .......................................................................................................... 28 Chatty APIs ............................................................................................................................................. 30 Complement with an SDK ................................................................................................................. 31 The API Façade Pattern ..................................................................................................................... 32 #################### File: Web%20API%20Design%20-%20Brian%20Mulloy%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 33 Context: # Web API Design - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love This approach has merit in that it can get you to market with version 1 quickly. Also, your API team members (your internal developers) already understand the details of the system. Unfortunately, those details of an internal system at the object level are fine-grained and can be confusing to external developers. You’re also exposing details of internal architecture, which is rarely a good idea. This approach can be inflexible because you have a 1:1 mapping to how a system works and how it is exposed to the API. In short, building up from the systems of record to the API can be overly complicated. ## The Standards Committee Approach Often, the internal systems are owned and managed by different people and departments with different views about how things should work. Designing an API by a standards committee often involves creating a standards document, which defines the schema and URLs and such. All the stakeholders build toward that common goal. ![Standards Committee Diagram](image-url) | | Expose | Expose | Expose RSS | |----------------|------------------|------------------|---------------------| | **Big System** | XML | XML | XML | | **DB** | XML | XML | XML | | **Content Mgmt** | XML | XML | XML | The benefits of this approach include getting to version 1 quickly. You can also create a sense of unification across an organization and a comprehensive strategy, which can be significant accomplishments when you have a large organization with a number of stakeholders and contributors. A drawback of the standards committee pattern is that it can be slow. Even if you get the document created quickly, getting everybody to implement against it can be slow and can lack adherence. This approach can also lead to a mediocre design as a result of too many compromises. #################### File: Web%20API%20Design%20-%20Brian%20Mulloy%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 13 Context: Web API Design - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love 13 Tips for versioning Versioning is one of the most important considerations when designing your Web API. Never release an API without a version and make the version mandatory. Let's see how three top API providers handle versioning. Twilio /2010-04-01/Accounts/ salesforce.com /services/data/v20.0/sobjects/Account Facebook ?v=1.0 Twilio uses a timestamp in the URL (note the European format). At compilation time, the developer includes the timestamp of the application when the code was compiled. That timestamp goes in all the HTTP requests. When a request arrives, Twilio does a look up. Based on the timestamp they identify the API that was valid when this code was created and route accordingly. It's a very clever and interesting approach, although we think it is a bit complex. For example, it can be confusing to understand whether the timestamp is the compilation time or the timestamp when the API was released. Salesforce.com uses v20.0, placed somewhere in the middle of the URL. We like the use of the v. notation. However, we don't like using the .0 because it implies that the interface might be changing more frequently than it should. The logic behind an interface can change rapidly but the interface itself shouldn't change frequently. Facebook also uses the v. notation but makes the version an optional parameter. This is problematic because as soon as Facebook forced the API up to the next version, all the apps that didn't include the version number broke and had to be pulled back and version number added. #################### File: Web%20API%20Design%20-%20Brian%20Mulloy%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 30 Context: Web API Design - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love 30 Chatty APIs Let’s think about how app developers use that API you're designing and dealing with chatty APIs. Imagine how developers will use your API When designing your API and resources, try to imagine how developers will use it to say construct a user interface, an iPhone app, or many other apps. Some API designs become very chatty - meaning just to build a simple UI or app, you have dozens or hundreds of API calls back to the server. The API team can sometimes decide not to deal with creating a nice, resource-oriented RESTful API, and just fall back to a mode where they create the 3 or 4 Java-style getter and setter methods they know they need to power a particular user interface. We don't recommend this. You can design a RESTful API and still mitigate the chattiness. Be complete and RESTful and provide shortcuts First design your API and its resources according to pragmatic RESTful design principles and then provide shortcuts. What kind of shortcut? Say you know that 80% of all your apps are going to need some sort of composite response, then build the kind of request that gives them what they need. Just don't do the latter instead of the former. First design using good pragmatic RESTful principles! Take advantage of the partial response syntax The partial response syntax discussed in a previous section can help. To avoid creating one-off base URLs, you can use the partial response syntax to drill down to dependent and associated resources. In the case of our dogs API, the dogs have association with owners, who in turn have associations with veterinarians, and so on. Keep nesting the partial response syntax using dot notation to get back just the information you need. /owners/5678?fields=name,dogs.name #################### File: Web%20API%20Design%20-%20Brian%20Mulloy%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 32 Context: # Web API Design - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love ## The API Façade Pattern At this point, you may be asking: **What should we be thinking from an architectural perspective?** **How do we follow all these best practice guidelines, expose my internal services and systems in a way that's useful to app developers, and still iterate and maintain my API?** Back-end systems of record are often too complex to expose directly to application developers. They are stable (have been hardened over time) and dependable (they are running key aspects of your business), but they are often based on legacy technologies and not always easy to expose to Web standards like HTTP. These systems can also have complex interdependencies, and they change slowly meaning that they can’t move as quickly as the needs of mobile app developers and keep up with changing formats. In fact, the problem is not creating an API for just one big system but creating an API for an array of complementary systems that all need to be used to make an API valuable to a developer. ![Big System](path_to_image) - Big system - DB - Content Mgmt - SOAP - JDBC - RSS It’s useful to talk through a few anti-patterns we’ve seen. Let’s look at why we believe they don’t work well. ## The Build Up Approach In the build-up approach, a developer exposes the core objects of a big system and puts an XML parsing layer on top. ![XML Parsing Layer](path_to_image) - XML - Expose Objects - Big System 32 #################### File: Web%20API%20Design%20-%20Brian%20Mulloy%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 22 Context: Web API Design - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love 22 This results in code that looks like the following, allowing the JavaScript developer to write it in a way that makes sense for JavaScript. "createdAt": 1320296464 timing = myObject.createdAt; Tips for search While a simple search could be modeled as a resourceful API (for example, dogs/?q=red), a more complex search across multiple resources requires a different design. This will sound familiar if you've read the topic about using verbs not nouns when results don't return a resource from the database - rather the result is some action or calculation. If you want to do a global search across resources, we suggest you follow the Google model: Global search /search?q=fluffy+fur Here, search is the verb; ?q represents the query. Scoped search To add scope to your search, you can prepend with the scope of the search. For example, search in dogs owned by resource ID 5678 /owners/5678/dogs?q=fluffy+fur Notice that we’ve dropped the explicit search in the URL and rely on the parameter ‘q’ to indicate the scoped query. (Big thanks to the contributors on the API Craft Google group for helping refine this approach.) Formatted results For search or for any of the action oriented (non-resource) responses, you can prepend with the format as follows: /search.xml?q=fluffy+fur #################### File: Web%20API%20Design%20-%20Brian%20Mulloy%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 10 Context: Web API Design - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love 10 Handling errors Many software developers, including myself, don't always like to think about exceptions and error handling but it is a very important piece of the puzzle for any software developer, and especially for API designers. Why is good error design especially important for API designers? From the perspective of the developer consuming your Web API, everything at the other side of that interface is a black box. Errors therefore become a key tool providing context and visibility into how to use an API. First, developers learn to write code through errors. The "test-first" concepts of the extreme programming model and the more recent "test driven development" models represent a body of best practices that have evolved because this is such an important and natural way for developers to work. Secondly, in addition to when they're developing their applications, developers depend on well-designed errors at the critical times when they are troubleshooting and resolving issues after the applications they've built using your API are in the hands of their users. How to think about errors in a pragmatic way with REST? Let's take a look at how three top APIs approach it. Facebook HTTP Status Code: 200 {"type" : "OauthException", "message":"(#803) Some of the aliases you requested do not exist: foo.bar"} Twilio HTTP Status Code: 401 {"status" : "401", "message":"Authenticate","code": 20003, "more info": "http://www.twilio.com/docs/errors/20003"} SimpleGeo HTTP Status Code: 401 {"code" : 401, "message": "Authentication Required"} #################### File: Web%20API%20Design%20-%20Brian%20Mulloy%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 15 Context: Web API Design - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love 15 These for example, all represent the same resource: dogs/1 Content-Type: application/json dogs/1 Content-Type: application/xml dogs/1 Content-Type: application/png The code we would write to handle the responses would be very different. There's no question the header is more correct and it is still a very strong API design. #################### File: Web%20API%20Design%20-%20Brian%20Mulloy%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 27 Context: Web API Design - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love 27 Authentication There are many schools of thought. My colleagues at Apigee and I don't always agree on how to handle authentication - but overall here's my take. Let's look at these three top services. See how each of these services handles things differently: PayPal Permissions Service API Facebook OAuth 2.0 Twitter OAuth 1.0a Note that PayPal's proprietary three-legged permissions API was in place long before OAuth was conceived. What should you do? Use the latest and greatest OAuth - OAuth 2.0 (as of this writing). It means that Web or mobile apps that expose APIs don’t have to share passwords. It allows the API provider to revoke tokens for an individual user, for an entire app, without requiring the user to change their original password. This is critical if a mobile device is compromised or if a rogue app is discovered. Above all, OAuth 2.0 will mean improved security and better end-user and consumer experiences with Web and mobile apps. Don't do something *like* OAuth, but different. It will be frustrating for app developers if they can't use an OAuth library in their language because of your variation. ########## """QUERY: what is web api design""" Consider the chat history for relevant information. If query is already asked in the history double check the correctness of your answer and maybe correct your previous mistake. If you find information separated by a | in the context, it is a table formatted in Markdown - the whole context is formatted as md structure. Important: Take a look at the QUERY and only the QUERY. Please try always to answer the query question. 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