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Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Anupama Murali, Harihara Subramanian J, Pethuru Raj
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Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

By: Anupama Murali, Harihara Subramanian J, Pethuru Raj

Overview of this book

This book deals with the Representational State Transfer (REST) paradigm, which is an architectural style that allows networked devices to communicate with each other over the internet. With the help of this book, you’ll explore the concepts of service-oriented architecture (SOA), event-driven architecture (EDA), and resource-oriented architecture (ROA). This book covers why there is an insistence for high-quality APIs toward enterprise integration. It also covers how to optimize and explore endpoints for microservices with API gateways and touches upon integrated platforms and Hubs for RESTful APIs. You’ll also understand how application delivery and deployments can be simplified and streamlined in the REST world. The book will help you dig deeper into the distinct contributions of RESTful services for IoT analytics and applications. Besides detailing the API design and development aspects, this book will assist you in designing and developing production-ready, testable, sustainable, and enterprise-grade APIs. By the end of the book, you’ll be empowered with all that you need to create highly flexible APIs for next-generation RESTful services and applications.

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Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
Get in touch
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1
Introduction to the Basics of RESTful Architecture
Introduction to the Basics of RESTful Architecture
Technical requirements
Evolution of web technologies
Learning about Web 3.0
Summary
2
Design Strategy, Guidelines, and Best Practices
Design Strategy, Guidelines, and Best Practices
Technical requirements
Learning about REST API and its importance
Goals of RESTful API design
API designer roles and responsibilities
API design best practices
API design principles
RESTful API design rules
Summary
Further reading
3
Essential RESTful API Patterns
Essential RESTful API Patterns
Technical requirements
Beginning with the installations
Beginning with RESTful API patterns – part I
Summary
4
Advanced RESTful API Patterns
Advanced RESTful API Patterns
Technical requirements
RESTful API advanced patterns
Summary
Further reading
5
Microservice API Gateways
Microservice API Gateways
Technical requirements
About microservice architecture
The prominent infrastructure modules in microservice-centric applications
About API gateway solutions
API gateways for microservice-centric applications
The issues with microservice API gateways
Security features of API gateways
Prominent API gateway solutions
Service mesh versus API gateway
Summary
6
RESTful Services API Testing and Security
RESTful Services API Testing and Security
An overview of software testing
RESTful APIs and testing
CQRS
Summary
Further reading
7
RESTful Service Composition for Smart Applications
RESTful Service Composition for Smart Applications
Technical requirements
The Representational State Transfer service paradigm
Service orchestration and choreography
Data management
Summary
8
RESTful API Design Tips
RESTful API Design Tips
Technical requirements
Beginning with APIs
Learning about application programming interfaces
APIs have become indispensable
Demystifying the RESTful services paradigm
Characterizing the REST architecture style
Summary
Further reading
9
A More In-depth View of the RESTful Services Paradigm
A More In-depth View of the RESTful Services Paradigm
Technical requirements
Tending toward the software-defined and software-driven world
The REST paradigm for application modernization and integration
SOAP versus REST
Best practices for REST-based microservices
Summary
Further reading
10
Frameworks, Standard Languages, and Toolkits
Frameworks, Standard Languages, and Toolkits
Technical requirements
Core features of a framework
Spring Boot
Beginning about Light 4j
Spark Framework
Dropwizard
Understanding Go framework for the RESTful API
Python RESTful API frameworks
Frameworks – a table of reference
Summary
Further reading
11
Legacy Modernization to Microservices-Centric Apps
Legacy Modernization to Microservices-Centric Apps
Technical requirements
A preview of containers and microservices
Approaching legacy application modernization
Refactoring and rewriting
Legacy modernization through microservices
Modernizing and migrating legacy applications – the role of cloud environments
Summary
12
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Technical requirements

As we will take a plunge into the code and samples, and a few pattern implementations in this chapter, the readers are expected to have a Java programming language and understand the basic concepts of Java 1.8. Our examples are implemented with Spring Boot and we have provided instructions to download and run the sample codes anywhere. However, for those who want to execute and test the code samples provided in this chapter, they may need to have the basic and necessary understanding of data formats such as JSON and XML, and also have a basic understanding of a Maven build process and client-server or web services development.

The following is the GitHub link for this chapter: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-RESTful-API-Design-Patterns-and-Best-Practices.git.

For the code to run in your computer, you need Java 8, Spring 4 (1.4.4), and Maven...

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