Documenting APIs: A guide for technical writers and.
Peter Gruenbaum Peter Gruenbaum has worked as an API writer to describe APIs for eCommerce, traffic prediction, electric utilities, mobile devices, tractors, and cat humor sites, just to name a few. His company, SDK Bridge, specializes in making APIs more engaging for developers by writing API documentation, sample code, and wrapper SDKs.
I: Introduction to REST APIs: REST APIs are flourishing in the marketplace, and the web is becoming a mashup of interconnected APIs. REST APIs consist of requests to and responses from a web server. Job prospects are hot for technical writers who can write developer documentation. This course will help you break into API documentation.
You can use the Google Calendar API to find and view public calendar events. If you're authorized, you can also access and modify private calendars and events on those calendars. Use the Google Calendar API to achieve deeper integration with Google Calendar. Mobile apps, Web apps, and other systems can create, display, or sync with Calendar data.
The Document.write () method writes a string of text to a document stream opened by document.open (). Note: as document.write writes to the document stream, calling document.write on a closed (loaded) document automatically calls document.open, which will clear the document. A string containing the text to be written to the document.
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably heard the terms API and REST thrown around and you’re starting to wonder what the fuss is all about. Maybe you already know a little bit, but don’t know how to get started. In this guide, I will explain the basics of REST and how to get started building an API (including authentication) for your application.
Public APIs are outward facing and accessible over the Internet, allowing you to write code that interacts with other vendors’ code online; this process is known as API integration.
An API can be created in any programming language. Similarly, most APIs can be implemented regardless of the technology used by the consuming developer. However, since many APIs make client libraries available, we can take a stab at the most popular programming languages for consuming APIs. ProgrammableWeb tracks vendor-supplied and community.
Writing a simple REST API. This tutorial is an introduction to writing REST APIs using the rest packages.It will cover defining the API, running it in a web framework, generating documentation, and generating and running API client libraries.
An application program interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications.Basically, an API specifies how software components should interact. Additionally, APIs are used when programming graphical user interface components.A good API makes it easier to develop a program by providing all the building blocks.
Hands on lab: Use Web API in ASP.NET 4.x to build a simple REST API for a contact manager application. You will also build a client to consume the API. In recent years, it has become clear that HTTP is not just for serving up HTML pages. It is also a powerful platform for building Web APIs, using a handful of verbs (GET, POST, and so forth.
If you’ve heard the term API before, chances are it’s been used not to refer to APIs in general, but instead to a specific kind of API, the web API. A web API allows for information or functionality to be manipulated by other programs via the internet. For example, with Twitter’s web API, you can write a program in a language like Python.
Bulk write APIs and Proxy. To support write (update, delete and create) operation on a batch of objects, a set of bulk write APIs are provided for internal service, which can accept a list of objects instead of a single one object. This helps reduce QPS dramatically to the APIs compared to regular write APIs.
Writing APIs with Lumen is a hands-on guide for writing test-driven APIs with PHP. Learn how testing APIs can help you write bullet-proof web applications and microservices. Update: The next version is published on Apress (paper and eBook) - Get it here.
