Creating Maintainable APIs

What are Object-Oriented design constructs and their APIs

How to create and manage the HTTP REST APIs

How to create and manage maintainable messaging APIs, including the use of Apache Kafka ad a principle messaging hub

How to handle message payloads via JSON mostly

And more

Zusammenfassung
Build straightforward and maintainable APIs to create services that are usable and maintainable. Although this book focuses on distributed services, it also emphasizes how the core principles apply even to pure OOD and OOP constructs.
The overall context of Creating Maintainable APIs is to classify the topics into four main areas: classes and interfaces, HTTP REST APIs, messaging APIs, and message payloads (XML, JSON and JSON API as well as Apache Avro).

What You Will Learn

Use object-oriented design constructs and their APIs

Create and manage HTTP REST APIs

Build and manage maintainable messaging APIs, including the use of Apache Kafka as a principal messaging hub

Handle message payloads via JSON

Who This Book Is For
Any levelsoftware engineers and very experienced programmers.

Inhalt

1. Information Hiding and APIs.- 2. Modular Design.- 3. Designing Classes for Reuse.- 4. TDD as an API Design Technique.- 5. Identifying Resources.- 6. Versioning REST APIs.- 7. Encoding Actions on Resources.- 8. Implementing Synchronous and Asynchronous REST APIs.- 9. Documenting REST APIs.- 10. Testing REST APIs.- 11. Implementing Messaging APIs.- 12. Apache Kafka as a Messaging Hub.- 13. Testing Messaging APIs.- 14. Schema Based Messages.- 15. The Core JSON API.- 16. Evolving the JSON API.- 17. Katharsis.