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Application Programming Interface. API.

Contents at a Glance.

About.

Documentation.

What is an API?

  • API - Application Programming Interface
    • API is a rather broad term - covering a wide range of meanings
  • Application - A computer application
    • Web Site, Mobile Application, any computer program
  • Programming - Instructions to complete a task
  • Interface - A point where two systems meet and interact
  • An API is a method for two computer applications to speak to each other

Type of APIs.

  • APIs come in many flavors
  • Clicking on a link in an email message is executing an API
    • Tells your device to open the web browser and go to this website
    • This action is performed via an API
  • Some APIs are very technology specific - considered CLOSED
    • For example on a mobile device where one application opens another
  • Others adopt broadly accepted standards - considered OPEN

API idempotency.

Faces del ciclo de vida una API.

  1. Estrategia
    • Definir los objetivos que se desea alcanzar con las API.
    • Que mercado se va abordar.
    • Que recursos se tienen a disposicion.
    • Que marco de tiempo se tiene para alcanzar los objetivos.
  2. Diseno
    • Indentificar entidades de negocio.
    • Modelar entidades de negocio.
    • Documentar API
    • Disenar el contrato de la API (Open API)
    • Compartir diseno con futuros consumidores (YAML)

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