MVC or Extract Service Layer

we have an application that is built with .Net MVC. We are now tasked with exposing API’s to third parties. Members on our team want to just continue down our current path and just use more controllers so we can reuse the backend of our current application. Logic tells me we need to create a seperate service layer when more clients are going to be accessing it, but .Net MVC seems to take care of all of this. Is it really acceptable architecture to use controllers in a stand alone application to expose API’s and what would be the potential gains of extracting the service layer out?

REST API rule about tunneling

Just read this in the REST API Rulebook: GET and POST must not be used to tunnel other request methods.

Developing JSON API for a Carpool Engine

I am developing a new set of API methods for carpooling/cab booking, so if a developer needs to develop an app or webportal for carpooling, he can call my JSON API. Basically making it easy for developers.

Sharing authentication methods across API and web app

I’m wanting to share an authentication implementation across a web application, and web API. The web application will be ASP.NET (mostly MVC 4), the API will be mostly ASP.NET WEB API, though I anticipate it will also have a few custom modules or handlers.

Asynchronously returning a hierarchal data using .NET TPL… what should my return object “look” like?

I want to use the .NET TPL to asynchronously do a DIR /S and search each subdirectory on a hard drive, and want to search for a word in each file… what should my API look like?

Too complex/too many objects?

I know that this will be a difficult question to answer without context, but hopefully there are at least some good guidelines to share on this. The questions are at the bottom if you want to skip the details. Most are about OOP in general.

DB API for shell scripting (any shell)

I am faced with some legacy shell scripts that run batch data processing jobs in Oracle using SQL+. For the most part, the data tier does not have to communicate back to the script with retrieved data to be passed for shell-level processing but in a few cases it does.

Does a mobile app need more access than the public API of a site?

I have a site with a public API, and some mobile app developers have been brought in to produce an iPhone app for the site. They insist they need to see the database schema, but as I understand it, they should only need access to the documented public API.

Questions to ask a 3rd party API provider [closed]

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GMail API for a small app (Rails? Javascript? PHP?)

I want to create an app that accesses the GMail API, but I’m finding that it isn’t as simple as I thought it might be.