The little manual of api design max planck society. The design of application programming interfaces can affect the behavior, capabilities, stability, and ease of use of enduser applications. Drawing from the authors experience on large scale, collaborative software projects, the text offers practical techniques of api design that produce robust code for the long term. Api design is, in many ways, like markup language design. Practical api design confessions of a java framework. Regardless, were always open to additional sections, concepts, and questions so dont hesitate to drop us a note.
They provide a number of code examples of bad and good api design decisions these examples are in java but are pretty vanilla and easily applicable to other languages. Lets model an api around a simple object or resource, a dog, and create a web api for it. Martin reddy draws on over fifteen years of experience in the software industry to offer indepth discussions of interface design, documentation, testing, and the advanced topics of scripting and plugin. Abstract base class an abc is a class that contains one or more pure virtual member functions. A useful method to determine the right service granularity is to identify the key entities that the service impacts and to model their life cycles. Jul 26, 2018 selenium ide is a record and playback tool, no programming support and it is prototype tool, not suitable for complex test design, so eliminate selenium ide, next selenium rc is out dated, next selenium grid, it is only for test executionparallel testing and doesnt support test design, so now we have only one tool for creating and executing. Read practical api design confessions of a java framework architect online, read in mobile or kindle. Download practical api design confessions of a java framework architect ebook for free in pdf and epub format. This book gives the reader new knowledge and experience. Reddys laboratories jdmf, kdmf, russia dmf available pdf document on. An api is a language, or rather an extension to the programming language. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. With the annual web2se workshop, we provide a venue for research on web 2.
A useful method to determine the right service granularity is to identify the key entities that the. Rest is used in mobile application as well as in web applications. Save up to 80% by choosing the etextbook option for isbn. Practical api design confessions of a java framework architect also available in format docx and mobi. The little manual of api design jasmin blanchette trolltech, a nokia company june 19, 2008. May 07, 2018 rest api introducing rest watch more videos at lecture by. It focuses on various api styles and patterns that will allow you to produce elegant and durable libraries. Contents 1 introduction 5 2 characteristics of good apis 7. 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. A good api should make correct usage easy and wrong usage difficult or impossible.
With this book, you will learn how to design a good api for largescale longterm projects. Martin reddy draws from his experience on large scale. With addition of our appendix on api design patterns and numerous other design tips, this book is complete. Jan 01, 1996 i havent read this book cover to cover as i was already familiar with some of the concepts, like the design patterns.
In this book, well start by discussing the what an api is, why you might need one, and follow up with the how to build one. Martin reddy draws on over fifteen years of experience in the software industry to offer indepth discussions of interface design, documentation, testing, and. Martin reddy draws on over fifteen years of experience in the software industry to offer indepth discussions of interface design, documentation, testing, and the advanced topics of scripting and plugin extensibility. You can always add, but you can never remove conceptual weight more important than bulk look for a good powerto. What are some guidelines and best practices that i can adhere to while designing an api.
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