In this question I’m giving the example of the Wikipedia REST API, but really I’d like to know the answer for any Rest API, as documentation for several APIs I have looked at so far present a similar problem:
Rather than just listing the parameters it will accept and the fields that a query can return, it’ll give examples with incomplete inform..
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Say you have a REST API endpoint like POST /move-money which transfers money from your main account to a savings pot. There are three path para..
I have a adminshellio image running on docker and I have created a aasx server on localhost. However in the aasx package explorer app whenever I try to connect to the server this message appears.
I have a HATEOAS API (in ASP.NET) with an endpoint:
POST /api/messages – to create a new message and it returns the location of a new m..
I want to write a REST server in Java using the Spring framework. I am fairly new to this and fail to produce an executable JAR file from my applic..
I have gone back and forth over the years of wanting the holy grail of a nice declarative API for fetching data (like what GraphQL has), but realizing that it exposes all kinds of vulnerabilities like fetching too much data, slow performance on nested queries, and many other things. I originally started with REST APIs before that, and am leaning toward just creating REST APIs again now, just have 1, 2 or 3 potential variations of a response perhaps, but not unlimited permutations of what you can fetch like what raw SQL or GraphQL o..
I have a “Games” API with retrieves video game data from a large database.
The /games endpoint returns some very basic info about the game, such as the title, description..
I’m trying to get an API working that GETs “adresses” from a server. I did the same for “projects”, which works.
The problem I get with the “addresses” is that I run into an error because it’s too much data appar..
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I am working on an API that has a User resource to represent the current user and a User service that handles business logic for representations of this..