When
11:15 AM Saturday
Where
SmithWick
Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 11th and 12th 2014session
Designing a Beautiful REST+JSON API
In this presentation, Les Hazlewood - Stormpath CTO and Apache Shiro PMC Chair - will share all of the golden nuggets learned while designing, implementing and supporting JSON-based REST APIs, using examples from a clean real-world REST+JSON API.
About This Session
Designing a really clean and intuitive REST + JSON API is no small feat. You have to worry about resources, collections of resources, pagination, query parameters, references to other resources, which HTTP Methods to use, HTTP Caching, security, and more! And you have to make sure it lasts and doesn't break clients as you add features over time. Further, while there are many references on creating REST APIs with XML, there are much fewer references for REST + JSON. In this presentation, Les Hazlewood - Stormpath CTO and Apache Shiro PMC Chair - will share all of the golden nuggets learned while designing, implementing and supporting JSON-based REST APIs, using examples from a clean real-world REST+JSON API. He will cover: * JSON-based data formats in a RESTful API * References to other JSON-based resources (aka 'linking'). * Resource collections and pagination * How to map (and how not to map) HTTP methods to Resource CRUD * Resource partial updates * Supporting HTTP Method Overloading for clients that don't support HTTP PUT and DELETE * API versioning strategies * Meaningful Error responses * Many-to-many resource relationships * HTTP Caching and Optimistic concurrency control. * Authentication and SecurityTime: 11:15 AM Saturday Room: SmithWick
The Speaker(s)
Les Hazlewood
CTO and Co-Founder , Stormpath
Les Hazlewood is Stormpath co-founder and CTO and the Apache Shiro PMC Chair. Prior to forming Stormpath, Les held senior architectural positions at Bloomberg and Delta Airlines and he was former CTO of a software engineering firm supporting educational and government agencies. Les has been actively involved in Open Source for more than 10 years, committing or contributing to projects like the Spring Framework, JBoss, and Apache Shiro. Les has a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.