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Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Anupama Murali, Harihara Subramanian J, Pethuru Raj
Book Image

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.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

RESTful Services API Testing and Security

Any software that claims to be enterprise-ready must have gone through rigorous testing cycles, be quality assurance certified, and have met several quality measures so that it gets used on production servers. The security of a software application is another critical aspect that determines whether or not it will be used on production servers.

To equip readers with an understanding of different aspects of production and enterprise-ready RESTful APIs, this chapter will discuss various aspects of those quality and security measures.

This chapter's intention is to take readers on an API testing journey. These are the milestones or topics we will cover as we go along:

  • Types of API tests
  • Challenges in API testing
  • Security in API testing
  • In addition, we will give you a glimpse of various API testing tools, API security tools, and frameworks...