An application programming interface (API) is the specification for which software is meant to be used by other software.
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Custom functions in a REST API
Looking at two of our entities Company and Address. A company has a billingAddress and a profileAddress.
I'm unsure of how to implement a function to set the billing address versus the profile. Here ...
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How to get different resources in a single endpoint in RESTful?
I have a REST webservice that have a couple of resources, like Company and User. But now I need to make a modification to the API to return a special list combining company, user and maybe other type ...
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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?
In this scenario I ...
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HG: fork web app project to separate API code from app code
I have a web app thats been in active development for about 8 months now and its becoming apparent that the project has a need to maintain a separation between app specific code and our OO Javascript ...
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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 ...
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design practice for business layer when supporting API versioning
Is there any design pattern or practice recommended for business layer when dealing with multiple API version.
For example, I have something like this.
http://site.com/blogs/v1/?count=10
which ...
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Designing a loosely coupled app -> stored proc interface for PostgreSQL. A couple of questions
I am in the middle of designing a next generation database access class for one of the programs I am building. We use PostgreSQL exclusively.
Our current approach is procedural (largely inspired ...
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How to optimize calls to multiple APIs at once and return as one set?
I have a web app that searches across 2 APIs right now. I have my own Restful web service that I call, and it does all the work on the backend to asynchronously call the 2 APIs and concatenate them ...
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Google Maps - Geofence a route
I'm looking at implementing a PHP based application, where by you have a certain route for example London to Edinburgh. Along this route, I want to calculate say a 10mi Radius or Polygon around the ...
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What are the benefits of having a remote database for your command line utility
I'm current working on a command line app that will grab resources online for you when you're setting up a new project locally. Right now all the urls for the resources I need are hardcoded into the ...
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Api Automation Layer For Single Instance Application
As part of application refactor I would like to add automation layer to it.
My vision is very close to the MS Office automation layer (Excel automation) - ability to perform application action using ...
