Creating Maintainable APIs A Practical, Case-Study Approach /

• Main Author: Varga, Ervin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2016.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer programming.; Programming languages (Electronic computers).; Computer Science.; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.; Programming Techniques.

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...

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.