RESTful Web APIs

Index

A

<a> tags, HTML as a Hypermedia Format, Hypermedia Controls

Accept headers, Content Negotiation, Accept

Accept-Charset headers, Accept-Charset

Accept-Encoding headers, Compression, Accept-Encoding

Accept-Language headers, Content Negotiation, Accept-Language

Accept-Ranges headers, Partial GET, Accept-Ranges

Activity Streams, Activity Streams

addressability, Addressability, Identification of Resources

Age headers, Age

agent-type API clients, The agent

Allow headers, Allow

ALPS (Application-Level Protocol Semantics)

application semantics in, ALPS

benefits of, ALPS

examples of, ALPS

lenient format of, ALPS Doesn’t Do Everything

profile link relation in, Advantages of ALPS

repository for, Advantages of ALPS, The ALPS Registry

API calls

server implementation details and, Is Maze+XML an API?

API clients

automated, Client #2: The Mapmaker, Client #3: The Boaster, Automated Clients

human-driven, Client #1: The Game–Client #1: The Game, Human-Driven Clients

APIs (application programming interfaces)

adding hypermedia to existing, Adding Hypermedia to an Existing API

Collection+JSON in, Collection+JSON

constraints and, Liberated by Constraints

design of (see design procedure)

downfalls of current, Introduction, Web APIs Lag Behind the Web, Is Maze+XML an API?, HTTP for APIs

duplication of effort in, Duplication of Effort, Liberated by Constraints

for microblogging, Duplication of Effort

functionality needed in, Introduction, A Simple API, Beware of Fake Hypermedia!

HTTP GET request in, HTTP GET: Your Safe Bet