RESTful API Design and Development

10 Ratings

Course Number: PROG-102
Duration: 2 days (13 hours)
Format: Live, hands-on

RESTful API Design and Development Overview

This RESTful API Design and Development course teaches attendees the core concepts and practices for RESTful API design and development. 
The course focuses on the principles for designing a RESTful JSON API. Core concepts and best practices are covered for both development and consumption of a RESTful API. 

View our 5-Minute API Design tutorials.

Location and Pricing

Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.

In addition, we offer some courses as live, instructor-led online classes for individuals.

Objectives

  • Consider web architecture as the basis of API strategies
  • Understand the REST architectural style and its motivations
  • Utilize the Richardson Maturity Model as a way to discuss design choices and induced properties
  • Implement security measures
  • Work with client technologies
  • Incorporate API management approaches
  • Implement testing strategies
  • Think about REST APIs vs. linked data, RPC models and GraphQL

Prerequisites

Other than object-oriented development or architecture experience, no prior expertise is presumed.

Outline

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Introduction
  • Brief History of Server Communication
  • Past Roadmap
Modern Options
  • REST
  • GraphQL
  • Direction Forward
  • Terminology
  • Pros/Cons of APIs
Designing APIs
  • Concepts
    • Anatomy of API Roles
    • Errors
  • Contracts
    • Detail Exposure
    • Standards
  • Design vs Code First
    • Flow
    • Testing
  • APIs for Existing Systems
    • Conversion of Concepts
  • Security
    • API Security
    • Authorization/OAuth
  • API Design Basics
    • HTTP States
    • HTTP Methods
OpenAPI 2
Richardson Maturity Model
  • Levels
  • OpenAPI 3.0
API Mechanics
  • JSON
  • Java Web Tokens (JWT)
Development Standards
API Lifecycle
  • Versioning
  • Options
  • Pros/Cons
Documentation for APIs
Publishing APIs
  • DevOps
  • CI/CD
  • Automated Testing
API Definition
  • OpenAPI
    • Metadata
    • Models
    • ServerPaths & Parameters
    • Using Postman
    • Request Bodies
    • Responses
    • Security
    • Links
Jetty API Server
  • Setup
  • Using Servlets

Training Materials

All RESTful API Design and Development students will receive comprehensive courseware including slides, design exercises, and sample solutions.

Software Requirements

  • Google Chrome
  • Other modern browsers as desired
  • Other free software and lab files that Accelebrate would specify, including Node.js


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Satisfaction guarantee

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Multiple Payment Options

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