APIs

API Design Best Practices

 

1. What does REST stand for?

Representational State Transfer.

 

2. REST APIs are designed around a __.

resources

 

3. What is an identifer of a resource? Give an example.

Objects, arrays, data ..etc

 

4. What are the most common HTTP verbs?

GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE.

 

5. What should the URIs be based on?

nouns

 

6. Give an example of a good URI.

https://adventure-works.com/orders

 

7. What does it mean to have a ‘chatty’ web API? Is this a good or a bad thing?

It’s when the API has a lot of small resources that you can request, and this is usually a bad thing.

 

8. What status code does a successful GET request return?

200

 

9. What status code does an unsuccessful GET request return?

406

 

10. What status code does a successful POST request return?

201

 

11. What status code does a successful DELETE request return?

204

 

12. How would you match your name using RegEx?

^Emam$ ?

 

 

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